The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-11-10

NEW YORK, Nov. ga dispatch to
the Tribune from London says:
The German Emperor has again sue
ceeded in commanding the attention OF
Europe and increasing his personal
prestige and influence. He received
yesterday at Potsdam with pomp,
stateliness and cordiality the Car and
Czarina of Russia, who had been Wis
iting their relations in Hesse, and there
were conferences between Count Muir
ayieff and the German Chancellor and
other high dignitaries of State. These
courtesies were a concession to the old
school of diplomacy, which, then trains d
by Bismarck, believed that the highest
interests of Germany were promoted
by a good understanding and secret
agreements with Russia.
The day fixed for this meeting of the
two sovereigns was also chosen for the
official announcement of various secret
arrangements made with England in
advance of the German Emperor's visit
to the Queen. These include the re-
nunciation of English rights in Samoa
in favor of Germany. Compensation for
England was found in the cession Of
two easterly islands of the Solomon
group and the abandonment of German
rights in the Tonga group and Saw
age islands, the abolition of German
Consular jurisdiction in Zanzibar and
an arrangement for the delimitation of
British and German frontiers in the
Hinterland of Togoland.
These exchanges of territory and jur-
fsdiction are too intricate to be under
stood, except by experts of the Royal
Geographical Society, although the
leading writers make a brave attempt
to explain them in to-day's London
journals. What is of the highest sig
nificance is the evidence that England
and Germany are heartily in accord and
standing by each other.
No diplomatist believes that the Ber-
lin announcement, confirmed by the
Foreign Office here, is a complete dis
closure of the secret agreement between
England and Germany The deepest
things are still unrevealed, but enough
is laid bare to prove that Lord Sails
bury has secured a free hand in South
Africa and the cooperation of Germany
in@preventing European intrigues or in
tervention while the British army is
quarter of the empire. Bismarck's Sc
cret understanding was with Russia
The German Emperor has become
England's ally and he allows the world
to know it on the day when he en-
braces the Gear and drinks his health
He also justifies the elaborate prepa-
rations made by the royal family for
welcoming him to England, with the
Duke of York to salute him at Sheer
ness, with the Prince of Wales to meet
him at the station at Windsor, with
the Queen herself TO stand at the head
of the grand staircase. with the por-
traits of his grandfather and father to
look down upon him from the walls of
the famous tapestry room and with. all
England outside ready to proclaim him
q royal friend and. sturdy ally-the
same England that was eager to have
war with Germany four years ago.
Another coincidence .swh ieh. does not
escape observation here is that this rev.
lelation of diplomatic secrets is made
the day after the American elections, in
which the party in power has secured
a general verdict of popular approval
Diplomatists- here assume with conf
uSuce liiai bHgianu mas not SacflnceQ
American friendship or interests in the
Samoan settlement and that the par
tition of territory between the United
States and Germany has received the
sanction Of the three Powers concerned
in the tripartite convention which had
ceased to be a practical method of gov
erning the group.
Leader writers for the press take this
view and also forecast a hearty Ger
man cooperation in the State Depart
ment's new policy requiring European
guarantees for an open door in the Far
East and equality of commercial priv
ileges for all maritime nations.
This view is justified by the latest
dispatches from Berlin. Everything.