The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-02-01
COMPETITION
With German Exports I'm South America-
Appropriate Text for Serm on on the EN-
peror's Birth Day-Editors Imprisoned
for Cartoontng the Emperor.

Copyrighted by the Associated Press.)
Berlin, January 29.-Maps which
have been distributed to members of
the Reichstag show that the district
about Ktao Chou bay ceded to Ger
many consists Of the northern and
southern peninsulas, enclosing the
bay, the northern peninsula being
q%uadruple the size of the southern
peninsula. The sphere Of interest ex-
tends over a radius of fifty kilometres,
and includes the large towns of Kiao,
Tsimo and Tynout-Choeng.
1t is learned at the foreign Office
that owing to the sugar bounty con-
ference at Brussels. the reciprocity
negotiations between Germany and
the United States are at a %standstill,
n IT, is doubtful whether they will be
resumed. as Germany has about con-
cluded that nothing tangible will come
out of them.
The foreign office, next will direct
the attention of the chambers OF COM
merce to the serious American COM
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up in South American countries, where
German exporters have so great inter-
ests. The officials of the foreign office
are preparing a suggestion of the best
way to combat this competition.
The peculiar apositeness of the text
of the special sermon on Emperor
Williams birthday, namely: BE Still
and Know that I Am God. I Will be
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tracted a great deal of attention and it
is now explained that the Emperor
himself selected it. It is suggested
that the adding of the word Chinese"
would make the passage perfect.
A noteworthy article in The Ham
burger Nachrichten on the occasion of
the emperor's birthday bears unmis-
takably the earmark of Friedrichsruhe
and expresses Prince Bismarck's
views. 1t says:
"The monarch has stepped into the
foreground of public life far more han
his ancestors did. The policy of the
empire and of Prussia bears marks of
imperial origin and the strong individ-
UaIity of the sovereign is ever percepti-
BILE in the most difficult Spheres He
not only governs, but rules, and is in
reality the actual leader of the nation
and disposes of the destines of Ger
many. If Germany is o animated
by a higher spirit than a short time
ago; if the confidence of the state
government visibly increases; if the
spirit of enterprise is impulsed, we
attribute it mainly to the fact that the
emperor has known how to find ways
whereby desirable ends are attain
able"
The most severe criticism has been
aroused throughout the country at the
sentence of two months Imprisonment
in a fortress imposed upon Herr Tro-
jan, editor of The Gladderadatsch, on
Tuesday last, for cartooning the en-
peror. Even the conservative news
papers pronounce it an atrocious SEN
tence and it is said to be directly due
to the emperor's influence, as his
majesty was furious at the cartoon
and has given strict injunctions that
Herr Trojan be confined at Weichsel
Nunde, situated in a fever-laden dis
trict, where Herr Wreds, another crit
ic, contracted the most yer malaria.
The Gladderatasch's issue of today
was confiscated, owing to the publica-
ton of a cartoon in which Herr Trojan
~satiracally criticised his sentence. He
also published two poems to the same
effect in today's Gladderadatsch.