Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1898-06-12
BERLIN CABLE LETTER.

Feeling In Germany as to the Spanish
American War.
Copyright, 1898. by Associated Press :,
BERLIN. June 11.--There is no ma
terial change in the feeling in Ger
| many in regard to the war between
Spain and the Un:tea state- The
government scrupulnuslv avoids ex
pressing its view. on the subject and
a few of the German newspapers per
| sist in their attitude Of little short Of
open hostility toward the United States.
Throughout the week they have vehe-
| mently maintained that the nccurran-
| res at Santiago DC cuba Amounted to
another defeat NJ the Yankees" aud
| have sleefu!ly printed the living Mad
rid dispatches supporting this contcn
| ton
These newspapers also continue to
charge the Americans with cowardicc
for mot attacking the Spaniards,"
whom, until recently. the Americans
regarded as foes unworthy OF their
STEEL
a member OF the German staff here
in an interview With the correspondent
of the Associated Press, said:
1T is hard for a trained soldier Of
| the European mold TO suppress a sens
timent akin to contempt when reading
the accounts of what has thus far
been done. OF, rather left undone, by
the American army against the Span
ish troops in Cuba
with no Spanish fleet to worry
them. money and transportation in
abundance. all the men needed at
their command. they have been unable
thus far to even effect q landing OF
troops. This fact speaks for itself.
And. after the enormous Boosting of
the American press and people. who
systematically belitticd the Spanfarls
for months before the outbreak of the
war this inglnrious failure is doubIv
conspicuous. ana. II striking proof or
the great superiority of the European
system OF standing armies was needed.
the Americans have furnished IT."
The above sentiments are apparently
shared by all the German military
! men.
The attempts OF Spain to secure Eu-
| ropean intervention continue, in spite
NJ the little encouragement held out
by the cabinets approached. The for
eign office is coEniZant of the nego-
tiationS but attaches no Importance to
them.
The feasibility and probability of an
Anglo american alliance or under
standing is attracting widespread at
tention in the German press, though
the idea is universally scuffcd at :,s
tmpracticable. The papers here profess
not to believe In the possibility of such
an entente. and point out an array of
alleged facts showing by which the in
tereStS of the two nations cannot travel
IN parallel INES, declaring tnat Great
Britain'S anxiety for an alliance is du"
to fear engineered by her present isola-
| ton. p...I .Ma H.".
The Cologne Gazette recognizes the
idea and claims that 1t the idea was
| contaminated Great Britain would
have all the advantages and America
all the disadvantages. The govern
! ment proposes to ask the new Reich
stag to increase the credits for the re-
organization of the army and addi-
| lions to the field artillery, including the
creation of mortar batteries, and the
addition OF a corps of mounted infan-
try 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 gov
eminent is not participating in the
Brussels sugar conference is regarded
unfavorably here
Fifty persons have been made sick
by trchinisis this week in the neigh
borhnod of Zwickau. Saxnny. and 1t Is
asserted that American pork was re
sponsible for II. But. when proof Of
this assertion was invited it was not
procurabe.
1t is said at ST. Petersburg that Mr..
Cornelius Vanderbilt. fearing capture
by the Spaniards. is to leave his yacht
at Odessa until peace is declared.