The herald., 1898-06-12
TOO PROUD TO ADMIT DEFEAT,
BUT SEEKS AID
ENGLAND KEEPS HANDS OFF
Balfour Says That Only the United
States Is in Position to
Dictate Terms
Associated Press Special Wire

bEHLlN, June u.-(COpyrlgnteO, loo9S
There is no material change in the feeling
In Germany in regard to the war between
Spain and the United States. The gov.
ernment scrupulously avoids expressing
its views on the subject and a few of the
German newspapers persist in their atti-
tude OF little short of open hostility tow
ards the United States. Throughout the
week they have vehemently maintained
that the occurrences at Santiago amounted
to another defeat of the Yankees" and
have gleefully printed the lying Madrid
dispatches supporting this contention.
These newspapers also continue to charge
the American with cowardice for not at
tacking the Spaniards whom until re
Gently the Americans regarded as foes un-
worthy of their STEEL
The attempts of Spain to secure Europ-
can Intervention continues, in spite of the
little encouragement held out by the cabi
nets approached Count Dervilla Gonzalje,
the Spanish ambassador at st. Petersburg
is now acting in concert with his colleague
in Paris, Senor Leon Castillo, in an sf-
fort to obtain the services of Russia and
France either Immediately or in the near
future. The German foreign office is cog
nizant of the negotiations, but attaches no
Importance to them. A high official of the
foreign office positively assures the cor
respondent of the Associated Press that
neither France nor Russia intends to in
tervene at the present juncture.
Although the anti-American feeling con-
tinues here, the latest war news, coupled
oio o1 &c
were endangering the commercial interests
of Germany, have compelled the newspa
pers to modify their ultra pro-Spanish
sympathies and some of them are begin
ming 70 admit tfiat Spain is in a perilous
condition.
The Deutsche Zeitung says it thinks the
moment has arrived for diplomatic inter-
vention in regard to the Philippine islands.
The vossische Zeitung says: I'm the
Philippines Spain's punishment for CEN
turtles of misrule is imminent. The cruel
massacre of the patriot Rizal and thous-
ands of Tagals finds bloody recompense.
The vossische Zeitung is the first Berlin
paper to publish the reports of special
correspondent sent to Tampa.
The Post of this city admits that Spaln's $
affairs have arrived at critical stage and
says:i"If in addition to other misfortunes,
the throne Is upset by a civil war, Spain
would lose all sympathy hitherto felt for
her by the continental powers"
The government proposes to ask the new
reichstag to increase the credits of the re-
organization of the army and additions to
the field artillery, including the creation OF
mortar batteries and the addition Of corps
of mounted infantry to every army corps,
an increase of the pioneer regiments by
battalion each and the formation of three
new army corps.
The fact that the United States is not
participating in the Brussels sugar confer
ence is regarded unfavorably here.
p Fifty persons have been made sick by
trichinosis this week in the neighborhood
of Zewickau, Saxony, and it is asserted that
American pork was responsible for it.
= 1t Is said at st. Petersburg that Cornelius
Vanderbilt, fearing capture by the Span
iards. is to leave his yacht at Odessa until
peace is declared.
3 A great 6eal of political Importance is
attached to Emperor Williams visit to
Palestine. 1t is suggested that besides end
ing the pretensions of France to the right
TO grant protection to all Christians in the
a fed for German colonization by the con-
clusinn Of state treaty with Turkey. 1t
is nc .p1 out that the sultan will find diff
ficu,, N refusing such a proposal from
Emperor wilhai. especially as it is a fact
that the Germans are already invading
Asia Minor as we'll as Palestine, systemati-
cally and successfully.
Not Ready for Peace
MADRID, June H. 2 p.m.-The cam
paign inaugurated by some of the foreign
newspapers in favor of peace between Spain
and the United States is not approved here
According to the opinions of several gen.
erals, Spain is capable of continuing the
war in Cuba for two years, even under the
most unfavorable circumstances. There
fore, they add it is useless to talk of peace
unless it implies return to the status quo
ante bellum.
The government, it is added, has not re-
ceived any suggestions of peace from the
powers, and in political circles it is declared
that If such suggestion were received the
government would politely decline to en-
tertain it on the ground that Spain has de-
cided to pursue the war to the bitter end
= Dispatches received here from Cuba an
nounce that yellow fever is raging in Rear
Admiral SIMPSONS fleet the province of
Santiago de Cuba being, it is claimed, the
ihotbed Of the disease.
!. I .s--..-.-..., Private Talk
- BERLIN, June II. The Kruez Zeitung
today says 1t can confirm the reports that
q confidential interchange of opinion is
taking place between several of the powers
in regard to mediation between Spain and
the United States
Mere Childishness
~ tLONDON June lin regard to the
rumored peace propositions of Spain, the
Pail Mall Gazette says:
'Balfour well sums up the case: 1--WE
should be delighted to do anything to help
but we could not think of 1t unless bott
parties seemed likely to welcome it and
mean business, which they do not That's
Just It, America is ready for peace, bu
only on the terms she is entitled to. Spair
/. - ready for peace, but on let us pretent
that nothing has happened terms. Unles.
Spain sees the ehildishness of this ti1er
h no hope for peace. In the meanwhile II,
power is likely to invite a well-deservet
snub by babbling about uninvited interven