Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-10-22
Copyright, 1899. Associated Press)

bEhIIIN, OCTOBER Zl.-Ile German
press is just as unanimously anti-Brit-
ish in the Transvaal war as it was anti
American in the war between the Unit
ed States and Spain. Even the Liberal
papers, although politically and COM
mercially they have all along sough:
and found an ideal in England, now
strongly disapprove Englands proceed
ure in varied but never complimentary
utterances. The speakers in the Brit
ish parliament are characterized as
II ypocritical, and the British people
and government are described as De-
voured by land hunger" and by Greed
for Transvaal gold.''
The kreuz Zeitung says:
The peace conference at The Hague
accomplished at least something, for,
still more because the verdict given by
that international tribunal, the unani-
nous opinion of the whole world is
against England's proceeding, which is
due to Mammon- worship alone. Every
where the verdict is that greed and
hunger for land and gold do not yet
confer the right to go to war"
The Frankfurter Zeitung says:
The specious phrase England Is
compelled to begin war because the
Beers will not grant the same rights
to the Outlanders as the Burghers pos
sess,' is repeated over and over again.
1t has been used by the English poet
laureate, by ministers in parliament
and by the press, but that does not
make the phrase true
To the complaint of the English press
that the entire press of Germany sides
with the Beers. the Deutsche Tages
Zeitung replies:
quite so. We all wish and hope
that England may meet with defeat
and this is quite aside from our SYM
pathies with the Beers. The whole
German people think as we do"
The Lokal Anzeiger says:
1.-THE English seem to have taken
pattern by that doughty American Cen
eral, Otis, in sending out bulletins OF
victory in which he kills off seven
times as many Filipinos as the whole
insurgent army contains, though he
does not dare go beyond the close vi
entity of Manila"
The press censorship instituted in
Natal is characterized as worse than
Russian"
The Conservative Reischbote when 1t
learned that Emperor William was go
ing to England in November, threaten
ed a counter demonstration. The gov
eminent, however, is fully determined
to preserve its neutrality.
DR.. Leyds, the representative Of the
Transvaal in Europe, was on the point
of coming to Berlin this week to make
another attempt to influence Germany s
policy. He notified Count Won Buelow,
the German minister of foreign affairs,
who, after comforting with the Emperor
on Tuesday, telegraphed to DIR. Leyds
a hint that a visit just now would be
slightly embarrassing and that his pur-
pose would certainly not be furthered
by it.
The Associated Press learns from for
eign office official in the confidence Of
Count Won Buelow that the latter said:
1--WE don't want Leyds here just now.
We have nothing to say to him"
1t is another question whether this atti-
tude of strict neutrality is wise. A mem
Der ofthe Russion embassy said to the AS
ISOLATED Press correspondent:
'1ne steps 1or tne pTeseFNdlioH u pSeice
undertaken by Russia are likely to mis-
carry because Germany just now adheres
to her Anglophile policy. Germany's atti-
tude alone made Mr.. Chamberlain's bold
advance possible Germany is in a meas
ure responsible for the prospective subjec-
ton of the Transvaal. She is on the point
of earning substantial rewards from Eng
land and not only in Africa, but these
gains will not counterbalance the losses
she will sustain elsewhere because of her
aid to England. 1t will be Germany's do
ing if England soon becomes all powerful
in Africa, and Germany will be the first
to feel the consequences"