The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-30
European Powers Planned the
Downfall of England.
IN GERMANY'S INTEREST
EMPEROR WILLIAM WAS THE
ARCH-CoNsPIRAToR.
Sensational and Doubtful Story
Printed In the Contemporary Re
view-Entrance of the United
States In the Orient Upset All
Plans-Cause of German Hostility.

New York, Nov. pa dispatch to the
Times from London says: The Contem-
porary Review, issued tonight, contains
a sensational anonymous article entitled
1.-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 Eng
land getting 1t, and the car holds his
promise to vacate it when called upon,
Russia providing Germany with coaling
stations elsewhere.
The writer declares that 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 suddenly been thrown into
confusion by the American-SpaniSh war,
and America and England drawing to-
gether.
The article which is sure to attract at
tention for it's extraordinary attack upon
the queens grandson continues:
THE American people. with charac-
teristic Shrew0neSS, have detected this
with resentment and hostility and are in
no mood to put up with broWbeating from
anyone. Considering that the Americans
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 manifeSting interest
in the situation in the far east but now
that the impulse has been supplied and an
assertion of the claim to have a voice
in it. has been made, there will be no
drawing back or hesitation in pushing
matters to a conclusion.
1T is precisely in the far east that the
action-the mere presence-of the United
States is so disconcerting and disagree
able to the German emperor.
ct disarranges all his plans deprives
himself and allies of that ascendency in
the Chinese seas. which they twice as
serted for their own benefit, and from
which they saw long train of future ad-
vantages.
"Under such circumstances the con-
tinued proximity of American and Ger
man squadrons at Manila, aggravated by
the demeanor of the German officers. is
full of peril. The peril may pass off. but
will only do so by the withdrawal Of
GermanY's pretensions.
AT this moment the question turns on
whether the German emperor can induce
Russia and France to join him in
demonstration of superior naval force to
that possessed by the United States both
in the Pacific and the Atlantic, and the
answer to that question largely depends
on whether he and the car of Russia
between them can exercise sufficient per-
sonal pressure in England 20 induce our
government in return for some empty
concessions in Africa. some easily broken
promises as to China, to hold its hand, to
hesitate Cor the necessary moment while
they enforce their will on the United
States.
This is to be the real peril to the ere
alton of real Anglo-Saxon alliance.
From the beginning of the crisis in the
far east the English policy has done moth
ing but hesitate and give way, has al
lowed and assisted the creation of diff
culties 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
in FOR in rr1- ic
obviously to our interest to support that
power with all our strength and make
every effort, so that it shall not be dis
couraged ard restrained on the thresh-
old of the new and beneficial move
ment it is making toward a more active
external policy