The age-herald., 1898-06-12
GERMAN PRESS
 STILL. <. 11ST|LE Government Sqs $ dOusIy Avoids txpressingS : Ws on War. OCCURRENCES AT SANTIAGO Described By Newspaper As Another
 Defeat For the Yankees. SPAIN IS STILL ENDEAvORlNG To Secure Intervention by Some Euro-
 ropean Power. EHE ANGLO-AmERICAN ALLIANCE Is still Attracting Widespread Attention Although the Idea is Scoffed at as Im- probable Ky the German Press
 Williams Visit to Palestine.
To Secure Intervention by Some Euro-
 ropean Power.
EHE ANGLo-AmERICAN ALLIANCE

Berlin, June 11.-There is no material change in the feeling in Germany in regard to the war between Spain and the United States. The government scrupulousIy avoids expressing its views on the subject and 9 few of the German newspapers per- sist in their attitude of little short of open hostility towards the United States Throughout the week they have vehement fy maintained that the occurrences at San tago de Cuba amounted to "another de- feat for the Yankees" and have gleefully printed the lying Madrid dispatches sup porting this contention. These newspaper also continue to charge the Americans with cowardce for not attacking the Spaniards. "whom until recently the Americans re- garded as foes unworthy of their steel"
 German Military Ioeas
 A member of the foreign staff has, in an interview with the correspondent of the Associated Press, said Tt is hard for trained soldier of the European mold to suppress a sentiment akin to contempt when reading the accounts of what has thus far been done, or rather left undone. by the American army against the Spanish 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 landing of troops. This fact speaks for itself. And after the enor- nous boosting of the American press and people who systematically belittled the Spaniards for months before the outbreak of hostilites this inglorious failure is douoly conspicuous and if striking proof from the superority of the European sys- tenn of standing armies was needed the Americans have furnished it."
 spain's Futile Efforts
 The attempts of Spain to secure Euro pean intervention continue, in spite of the little encouragement held out by the cabi- nets approached. Count Der Villegonzillie. the Spanish ambassador at St. Petersburg, is now acting in concert with his colleague in Paris, Senor Leon y Castillo, in an effort 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. high official of the foreign office positively assures the corre- spondent of the Associated Press that neither France nor Russia intends to inter- vene at the present juncture.
 The feasibility and probability of an Am glo-American alliance or understanding is attracting widespread attention in the Ger man press, though the idea Is universally scoffed at as improbable The papers here pTOltSS nOt tO pcnCNc III thC poSSiphtJ OA such an entente and point out an array of alleged facts showing why the interests of the two nations cannot travel in parallel lines, declaring that Great Britain's anxiety for an alliance is due to fer engendered by her present isolation. The Cologne Ga- zette ridicules the idea and claims that if an alliance were consummated Great Britain would secure all the advantages and America all the disadvantages.
 Not TaLen SeriousIv
 The foreign office does not take the mat ter seriously. The fact that the United States government is not participating in the Brussels conference is regarded un- favorably here.
 Fifty persons have been sick by trych- nosis this week in Saxony and it is asserted that American pork was responsible for 1t. Proof of this assertion is not procura- ble. fAts
 A great deal of political importance is attached ito 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 tho east, 1t may result in securing Asia Minor as a field for German colonization, by the conclusion of state treaty with the Turks. It is pointed out that the sultan will find in refusing such a proposal from Emperor William and probably as 1t is a fact that the Germans are already invading Asia Minor hs we'll as Palestine syste- and successfully.
 TEV T.EAE COAT. S2 ner ton Te1ephons