The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-08
KAISER ADnIRES Us
Something In Yankee Blood Be-
sides C0mmercialiSm."
SENTIMENT in GERMANY
EMPEROR DEEPLY INTERESTED
IN WAR WITH SPAIN.
His Majesty Is On the Side of the
United States and Praises the
Valor of Commodore Dewey's
Fleet-Hostile Attitude of the
German Press.

Berlin, May 7.-(Copyright, 1898, by
the Associated Press).-Emperor VIII
/ liam is following up the course of the
war between the United States and
Spain with the deepest interest. He
| has instructed the chiefs of the naval
and military cabinets to closely watch
the progress of hostilities between the
| two countries and to report regularly
to him. The emperor has also given
similar instructions to Lieutenant Colo
mel Goetzer. the military attache OF
the German embassy at Washington,
whose term has expired and who has
been re-appointed to that position for
six months Count Won Goetzer started
for Washington on Friday last to re-
sumo his duties at the embassy. AT
his farewell audience with Emperor
William on Tuesday the attache was
instructed by his majesty to send
elaborate personal reports, intended ex-
clusively for the eyes of the emperor,
apart from the official reports intended
for the ministry of war These per-
sonal reports, his majesty added, were
to include everything of an interesting
and anecdotal character, and were to
draw a comparison of the morale and
endurance of the militia and the regu-
lar soldiers.
PRAISES OUR NAVY.
All news of the battle of Manila
reaching the German foreign office was
at once communicated to the emperor,
who marked the movements of the
fleets on special maps He compared
the size and the armament OF the YES
sells comprising the Spanish and Amer
lean squadrons. To his entourage he
has expressed his high opinion of the
attack made by the vessels of the
United States, especially praising the
unusual valor displayed by Commodore
Dewey's fleet in following the Spanish
warships into the harbor of Manila, and
forcing them to fight. In commenting
on this fact, his majesty said:
There is evidently something be-
sides smartness and commercialism in
the Yankee blood. Those fellows at
Cavite have fought like veterans"
Emperor william, it is rumored. is
inclined. in his private capacity to be
on the side of the United States, bnt in
view of the grave dynastic interests
involved in Spain by the war, he is I'M
usually cautious in Keeping his views
on the subject. Grave apprehension as
to the ultimate fate of the Spanish dy-
nasty is felt in ali courts of Europe,
and the queen regent in Spain has been
the recipient since the battle of Ma
Mia of marks of sympathy, not only
from the emperor. but also from Queen /
Victoria and nearly every one of the
crowned heads of Europe.
GERMANY'S INTERESTS.
On Thursday evening, after the clos
ing of the reichstag, Prince Hohenlohe, !
the imperial chancellor, gave a recep- (
ton to the delegates, government Of /
ficials and members of the press. Con-
sideriag his age, the chancellor is re-
markedly vigorous In an animated /
conversation at the reception, Prince .
Hohenlohe said: LAS far as Germanys /
individual interests are concerned, the /
Experimentation war is not likely to 4
injure or involve them, although it is !
yet too early to tell how far the po-
litical and commercial situation may
be modified. In any case Germany's +
material interests are decidedly on the I
American side, and it is to me proof |
of the political immaturity of the Ger
man people. and particularly of the /
press, that they are loudly and almost |
on the side of Spain in
this fight"
A HOSTILE PRESS.
These utterances tend to prove that
the. German government at least Sc
cretly wishes the United States sue
cess. In the meanwhile, however, the
German press continues to be rather
unfriendly towards the United States,
both editorially and in the way of pre-,
senting war news. The Kreususe Zei-
tung, the favorite organ of the army
and nobility, in noting this adverse
feeling says, in its weekly political re-
view. that those in Germany who are
with the Americans are
few and far between. This paper fur 7
Their says it thinks that one of the out
comes of the present war will be the
of centralism and impe-
rialism in the United States
The comments of the German press
on the victory of the Americans at
Manila makes a curious study. Until
last most of the military edi-
tors of the newspapers predicted an in