The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-07-03
Relative to the Final Disposition Of the
Philippine Islands.
fere Until Hostilities Cease,
After Which They Will Com
bine to Prevent the United
States OF Great Britain Gain
ing Possession of the Whole of
the Islands.

BERLIN, July 2.-On the best au-
thoffity, the correspondent here of the
Associated Press is informed that Ger
many, France and Russia have reached
an understanding relative ito the Phil
lppine Islands. 1t is said that these
three Powers do not intend to actively
interfere until hoStilities cease, after
which they will combine to prevent the
United States or Great Britain taking
possession of the whole of the Philip
pine Islands. When the war is over an
international congress will be proposed,
similar to the Berlin Congress of 1878,
to Settle all questions connected with
the war. All the great Powers viii be
invited to join. including the United
States and Spain. 1t appears certain
that Germany will demand a slice of
the Philippine Islands or other COM
pensation in the Far East.
The correspondent of the Associated
Press had confederation of the above
facts from an authentic source.
The same authority said Germany is
doing a thriving trade in provisions,
especially peas, beans and canned
goods, and in ammunition and small
arms, through Hamburg commission
merchants, who are sending both to
Spain and the United States. The lat
ter, it appears, is buying quantities of
potassium, used for saltpeter, from the
big German alkah works. All these
goods, it is asserted, are shipper from
Copenhagen mainly by the Thingvalia
Line. The German Government has
ordered that three cruisers be kept in
West Indian waters. In spite of the
war, the German exports to America
are as large as ever.
OBSERVATIONS OF FOREIGN
PRESS.
LONDON, July 2.-The friendliness
with which the English newspapers
have been praising the United States
officials is again disturbed by the snarl-
ing editorial of the Morning Post"
which newspaper prints a letter pro-
testing against Great Britain's help
TO America" and declaring that it
should be known at the critical turning
point in the struggle between Spain and
the United States if Great Britain is
influencing and determining the issue.
The letter also declares that on Sun
day last, in Washington, the day after
Colonel John Hay, the United States
ambassador had had a long interview
with the Marquis of Salisbury, John
Long, the secretary OF Navy, stated
that Admiral Camara would not be al
lowed to pass through the canal.
If" the letter continues, 1.-THE posi-
ton of the American forces in the Pa
cific is considered of importance this
decision will not become manifest Four
unarmored cruisers lie in Manila bay,
weed-grown after two months of mac
tivity in tropical waters and desper-
ately short of ammunition and coal. In
the meanwhile three small military ex-
petitions which left San Francisco are
struggling across. An active COM
mander, with a force such as Admiral
Camera has, would of course, have the
whole American position in Manila at
his mercy. The Government is aware
of this, and when it found threats of
an immediate attack upon the Spanish
coast We're unsuccessful it appealed to
the British Government to stop Ad-
miral Camara's fleet
The special correspondent of the
Times in Berlin says that the angry
protests of the Cologne Gazette and
''Lokal Anzeiger'' against America
presuming to dictate to Admiral Won
Diedrichs, the German naval command
er at Manila, as to how he should
act" We're called out by the statement