The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-24
NO DEMANDS MADE YET
Nc Question of Coaling Station
in the Philippines.
GERMANY LESS FRIENDLY
The Liberal Papers Wish the United
States q Speedy success-Complics-
tons Over the Sugar Confer
ence-Lippo-Detmold Affair.

Copyright 1898 by Associated Press.
Berlin, July $50 far as the United
States embassy here Is concerned, moth
ing is known of any negotiations or
| communications whatever between the
United States and German governments
relative to any Spanish colonies" said
Andrew ID. White, United states am
bassador, in an interview with the cor
respondent here of the associated press.
Besides continued Mr.. White,
there has been no question at any time
between this embassy and the German
foreign office relative to the German
desire for a coaling station in the Phil-
ippines. nor for possession of any OF the
islands there, neither has there been
any discussion of Germany's wish 10
secure any other Spanish colonies. TO
express such wishes which we are I'M
aware of would be at the present mo-
ment above all too premature. Tnere
have been important negotiations pegun
between the United States and Ger
many, but II is too early to talk ABOUT
that now"
/ From another source the correspond
emit of the associated press hears that
the negotiations to which Mr.. White
refers relate to the tariff bill, but ne
has been unable to obtain an oflciai
confirmation of this at the German for-
eign office.
Emperor william is kept continually
Informed of all events connected with
the war between Spain and the Uniteu
States and of the developments at
Washington. Madrid and Berlin. Reg
ular reports are sent to him to points
on the Norwegian coast where he makes
stops while on his tour of Norway A
large batch of dispatches containing the
latest news of the war was sent TINS
week by special courier to Digormullen.
Baron Won Buelow, the minister Tor
foreign affairs, is absent on summer
leave, but he is expected back In a fort
night.
The tone OF the German press this
week is less friendly to the United
states than the week before, and the
latest developments in the war have
been. in many cases, commented upon
in a rather sarcastic spirit. The liberal
press. though, has adopted, generally
speaking, a fair and more neutral
tone.
The Vossische Zeitung printed an cdi-
toriaI in which il intimated that II
wished the United States speedy sue
cess and referred to the "unproken
friendship existing for so many years
between the two countries" other no
eral papers of Importance Ike tbs
Na~edeburg Zeitung and the wesei
Zeitung, express themselves IN the
same vein. -.
referring to the failure OF the late
sugar conference and to the agreement
between France and the United states
regarding tariff reductions, the Kreui
= Zeitung saws: SHOULD America refus'
|, to grant those tariff reductions to Ger
many and other European states a.
well. in spite of the most Favored ma
? ton treaties, there will be serious com
plications. To refuse this to German,
+ would be all the more unfair, sine
America was made to share. when w
! concluded our commercial treaties O
: 1892, in the large reductions that wer'
, then in force. without being asked u
grant us any equivalent"
1t is a well-known fact in diplomati
, circles in Berlin that the relations he
: tween the regent officer at Lippo-Det
= mold and the emperor of Germany nav
|, been extremely strained since the EN-
Z peror's brother-in-law. Prince Adolpl
I of Schaumburg-Lippo, was ousted iron
I office. owing to the final decision rem
e dered against him by the court of arbi
0 tration presided over by the king q
e Saxony and alleged instances of tn
8 emperor's i'll will towards the now re
gent of Lippo-Detmold have been cur
/ rent here for some time past. Matter
have now assumed a pass winch MAKE
the affair one of national magnitude.
Count Ernest, the present regent, hd
d been repeatedly sighted by the empero
e lately, and in such a way as TO hav
IS induced him to seek redress before tn
= forum of the bundesrath, before whic
the emperor Is no more than the regen
of Lippo-Detmold. The delegate 9
Lippo-Detmold has therefore brough
his sovereign's complaint formally bs
fore the bundesrath. begging that tn
e emperor may be held to render to IN
e regent of Lippo-D etmold the measui
!: of respect which the constitution of III
y empire says is his due. The regent q
d the same time sent strongly worded d.
n tailed autograph letters to all the 9TH
rulers of Germany, in which. after Sc
u ting forth the instances OF seriot
!. slight to which he claims to have pee
% subjected. he all the Germa
u sovereigns to see that justice Is dol
him. He also says that what has hal
i, pened to him may happen TO the
/, next. and that the emperor, by outrai
ing the principle of legitimacy In h
a case. %endangers the very foundation :
n which the throne of all German sove
* eigns rest.
The emperor has recalled the Pru