The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-29
ENGLAND'S ARCH ENEMY.
Fierce Attack on the KAISER by a
British Writer.

London, Nov. 29-The Contemporary
Review, just issued, contains a sensa-
tiOnal anonymous article entitled THE
Arch Enemy of England This is the
German emperor. The writer alleges
that the kaiser seized KiaO Chau by an
agreement with Russia to prevent
England getting it and the car holds
his personal promise to Vacate it when
called upon, Russia providing Germany
with coaling stations elsewhere.
The writer declares the kaiser had
drawn up a complete plan arranging
for the naval superiority of France,
Russia and Germany, over England
four years hence when England is to
be compelled to make humiliating terms
throughout the world, leaving Germany
the chief commercial colonial power.
All these plans have been suddenly
thrown into confusion by the American
Spanish war and America and England
drawing together.
The article which is sure to attract at
tention for it's extraordinary attack
upon the queens grandson, continues:
THE American people, with character
iStic ShrewdneSS, have detected this with
resentment and hostility and are in no
mood to put up with brow beating from
any one. Considering that the Amer
leans took no inconsiderable part in
opening China and Japan to external
influences, the only ground for surprise
is that they have been so slow in main
Testing interest in the situation in the
far east, but now that the impulse has
been supplied and an assertion of the
claim to have voice in it, has been
made there will be no drawing back or
hesitation in pushing matters to a con-
clusiOn.
1T is precisely in the far east that the
actiOn-the mere presence-Of the
United States is so disconcerting and
disagreeable to the German emperor.
1T diSarranges all his plans, depriVe9
himself and allies, of that ascendancy
in the China seas, which they have
twice asserted for their own benefit and
from which they saw a long train OF
future advantages.
Under such circumstances the con-
tinued proximity of American and Ger
man sQuadrOns at Manila, aggravated
by the demeanor Of the German ofti-
GERS, is full of peril The peril may
pass off, but will only do so by the with
draWal of Germany'S pretensiOns.
cat this moment the question turns
on whether the German emperor can
induce Russia and France to join him
in a demonstration of superior naval
force to that possessed by the United
States, both in the Pacific and in the
Atlantic and the answer to that ques-
ton largely depends on whether he and
the car of Russia between them can
exercise sufficient personal pressure in
England to induce our government, in
return for some concessions in Africa,
some easily broken promises as to Chi
ma, to hold its hand, to hesitate for the
necessary moment while they enforce
their will on the United States. This
Is TO De the ISdA perm 70 TIE CIGallOn Oh
a real Anglo-Saxon alliance.
From the very beginning of the cri-
sis in the far east, the English policy
has done nothing but hesitate and give
way has allowed and assisted the ere
alton of difficulties that never would
have arisen If it had only stood firm at
the beginning of the question.
There now appears on the scene in
a totally unexpected manner, one ally
who could and would adjust the balance
of power in the far east in our favor. It
is obviously to our interest to support
that power with all our strength and
make every effort so that 1t shall not be
discouraged and restrained on the
threshold of the new and beneficial
movement it is making toward a more
active external policy"