The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-07-03
. sNAR[ING EDITORIAL
A Discord in the Chorus of Brit
ish Praise.
ANGRY PROTESTS MADE
Germans Indignant That America Should
Presume Z Dictate to Admiral
Won Deidrichs at
Manila

London. July 1.-The unanimity with
been praising the United States of late
is again disturbed by the snarling edi-
torial of the Morning Post, which news
paper, in addition, prints a letter pro-
testing against Great Britain's help
to America" and declaring tina it
should be known that at the critical
turning point in the struggle between
Spain and the United States it is Great
Britain that is influencing and deter
mining the issue. The letter also de-
clares that on Sunday last. in Wash
angton, the day after Col. John Hay, the
United States ambassador, had had a
long interview with she premier, the
Marquis of Salisbury. John Long. the
American secretary of the navy, boass-
ed that Admiral Camara's fleet would
not be allowed to pass the SueZ n
If" the letter continues, ''the posi-
ton of the American forces in the Pa
cifc Is considered of Importance, this
decision will at once become manifest.
-Four unarmored cruisers lie in Manila
bay, after two months of inactivity in
the tropical waters and desperately
short of ammunition and coal. In the
meanwhile. three small military ex-
petitions which left San Francisco are
struggling across the Pacific. An ac-
tive commander with a force such as
Admiral Camara has would, of course,
have the whole American position at
Manila at his mercy. The government
Is aware of this and when IL found
threats of an immediate attack upon
the Spanish coast were unsuccessful
appealed to the British to stop Ca
mara's fleet"
The special correspondent of the
Times in Berlin says that the angry
protests of the Cologne Gazette n
Lokal Anzeiger against Americas pre-
Stunning to dictate to Admiral Won Died
richs (the German naval commander at
Manila) as to how he should act" were
called out by the statement made by
the Evening Post of New York that an
agreement in regard to Admiral Deid-
richs' attitude had been reached at a
conference between Secretary Day and
DIR. Won Holleben, the German ambas-
sador at Washington.
The Cologne Gazette says: Admiral
Won Deidrichs requires no instructions
from Washington in regard to what he
is to do or leave undone. So long as
he does not interfere so as to obstruct
or promote the enterprises of either of
the belligerents, neither Admira Dewey
nor Secretary Sherman is competent
10 give him any directions whatever.
~ iiht III VI
will not concern itself as to the meas
ures which Spain or America may adopt
for the maintenance of their interests
in the Philippine islands,"
The Lokal Anzeiger says: "A Ger
man admiral knows quite well in what
fashion he has to maintain and pro-
tect the interests of his countrymen. He
would most energetically repel any i'm
pertinent attempt to handle his affairs.
This is the proper answer to the pre-
sumption of the Yanke press"
The Cologne Gazette says: Further
than that. the phantoms of American
imagfnations are beginning to be posi-
lively ridiculous. We AVE not the
slightest. intentions of exciting ourselves
over the perfidious i~nsinuations against
Germany which the New York and
Washington press unfortunately adopt
from London. We leave that to the
course of events to make the Ameri-
cans ashamed of themselves and bring
them to reason"