Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-02
Foreign Newspaper View Of the I'm
portant Question.
LONDON SPECTATORS ARTICLE
British Press no Longer Unanimous
in Praise of America.
MORNING POSTS
SNARL

| LONDON, July 2.-The Spectator prints
| an article which is likely to attract atten-
| ton, the widening Of the war in every
| direction during the course of which it
| says:
"One thing is very curious in all this mat
| ter, and that is the scanty evidence OF
| American opinion which reaches Europe.
| What do all these quiet millions of work.
| ing freehoders and Industrious citizens,
| who live away from the newspaper cor
respondents, think about the progress of
| the war? Are they aware that their coun-
| try stands at the parting of the ways,
| that her external policy must be radically
| modified, and that she is engaged in a war
which may develop that it will occupy
years, create a national debt and leave the
! United States with a powerful army and
| the second fleet in the world? Do they
| think of peace, or have they made up their
minds that there shall be no peace until
| Spain begs for it and surrenders her colo
| nies? Above all, have they thought of the
possibility Of the war extending, and what,
in that case, they will order their govern
| ment to do?"
Morning Post Snarls.
The unanimity with which the British
| newspapers have been praising the United
| States lately is again disturbed by the
| SIdIIiIiS CULTURAL VI Tic MIL Hiilo oSb,
| which newspaper, in addition, prints let
| ter protesting against Great Britains help
| to America, and declaring that it should
| be known that at the critical turning point
| in the struggle between Spain and the
| United States it is Great Britain that is in
| fiuencing and determining the issue.
| The letter also declares that Sunday
| last, in Washing ton, the day after Colonel
| John Hay, the United States ambassador,
| had had long interview with the pre-
| mier, the Marquis of Salisbury, Mr.. John
| Long, the American Secretary of the Navy,
| boasted that Admiral Camara's fleet would
| not be allowed to pass through the canal
Work of Camara.
If" the letter continues, the position
of the American forces in the Pacific is
considered of Importance this decision will
at once become manifest. Four unarmoreo
cruisers lie in Manila bay, weed-grown at
ter two months of INACTIVITY in tropical Wa
ters, and desperately short of ammunition
and coal. In the meanwhile three small
military expeditions, which left San Fran
cisco, are struggling across. An active
commander with a force such Admiral
Camara has would, of course, have the
whole American position in the Pacific at
his mercy. The American government is
aware Of this, and when it found that
threats of an immediate attack on the
Spanish coast were unsuccessful it appeal
ed to the British government to stop Ad-
miral Camara's feet
The special correspondent of the Times
in Berlin says that the angry protests of
the Cologne Gazette and Lokalanzeiger
against Americas presumng to dictate to
Admiral Won Diedrichs' (the German naval
commander at Manila) as to how he should
act, were called out by the statement made
by the Evening Post of New York that an
agreement in regard to Admiral Won Died
richs attitude had been reached at a con-
ference between Secretary Day and Dr.
Won Holleben, the German ambassador at
Washington.
German Comment.
The Cologne Gazette says:
Admiral Won Diedrichs reuui. es no in
structions from Washington in regard to
what he is to do OF to leave undone So
long a; he does not interfere SC SIS to OBJ
struct or promote The enterprises CT either
OF the belliserents, neither Admiral Dewey
nor Secretary Sherman () Is competent
to give him any directions whatever. In
like merner. the German government will
not concern Itself as to the measures
"HiSh GPdil VI AIueTlCd may ADOPT 1Or
the maintenance of their interests in the
Philippine Islands,"
The Lokalanzeige. says: "A German ad-
miral knows quite well in what fashion he
has to maintain and protect the interests
of his countrymen. He would most ener-
setically repel any impertinent attempt to
handle his affairs. This is the proper an
swer to the presumptions of the Yankee
press"
The Cologne Gazette says: Further
than that, the phantoms of American
inaginations are beginning to be positively
ridiculous; We have not the slightest in
tention of exciting ourselves over the per-
fidious insinuations against Germany which
the New York and Washington press un-
fortunately adopt from London We leave
it to the course of events to make the
Americans ashamed of themselves and
bring them to reason"
The Berlin correspondent of the Times
says:
'One has only to ask intelligent and inde-
pendent advocates, as well as opponents
of German colonial expansion here, in every
class OF the community, and the answer in
variably is that it may be regarded as quite
certain that Germany will do her best to
obtain footing on the islands,"
LOHuOA 1l"cS EDITORIAL.
Editorially the Times says:
The German newspapers are in a great
state of excitement. because the Americans
venture to question the motives of the ex-
traordinary display of German ships at
Manila. Public opinion in America, on the
other hand. is very naturally aroused by
the exceedingly outspoken language COM
ing from inspired sources in Germany In re-
gard to the proper aims of German policy
In the Philippines. The efforts to explain
away that lauguags by pretending it was
used only by the malicious British press
may do well for the consumption of Ger
man readers, but It will not impose for an
instant upon American intelligence.
Apart from the menaces which. how
ever, disavowed in words. find thsir con.
crete embodiment in the German ships. the
American government can not but be
aware that the official explanation of these
ships being at Manila practically PLACES
America on the level with Turkey Were
the Germans at war with France and In
possession Of French colonial harbor with
the intent to reduce a French town. and