Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-11-09
GERMANy'S ACTS
Show That There Is Secret
Agreement
OF GREAT IMPORTANCE
Between Her and Great Britain and
That America Stands In With
These Two COuntrieS--NO Entang-
ling Alliance Made.

New York, Nov. "A dispatch from
London to the Tribune says: The Ger
man Emperor has again succeeded in
commanding the attention of Europe and
increasing his personal prestige and in
tluence. He received yesterday at Pots
dam with pomp, stateliness and cordial
ity, the car and czarina of Russia, who
had been visiting British relations in
HeSse, and there were conferences be-
tween Count Muravieff and the German
chancellor and other high dignitaries of
state. These %courtesies were a conces-
sion to the old school of diplomacy,
which. then raine by Bismarck, believ-
ed that the highest interests of Ger
many We're promoted by a good under
standing 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
agreements made with England in adj
vance Of the German emperOr's visit to
the queen. These include the renunci-
alton of English right in Samoa in favor
of Germany. Compensations for Eng
land were found in the cession of two
e~asterly islands of the Solomon group
and the abandonment of German rights
in the Tonga group and savage islands,
Aas' VI NsSI Soll6ulCA1 u
diction in Zanzibar and an arrangement
for the delimitation of British and Ger
man frontiers in the hinterland of Togo
land. These exchanges of territory are
too intricate to be understood except by
the royal geographical society, although
the leading writer's make a brave attempt
to explain them in to-day's London jour-
nails.
What is of the highest significance is
the evidence that England and Germany
are heartily in accord and standing by
each other. No diplomatist believes that
the Berlin 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 Salisbury
has secured a free hand in south Africa
and the cooperation of Germany in pre-
venting European intrigue or interven-
ton while the British army is fighting
a great battle in a remote quarter of the
empire. Bismarck's secret ally was with
Russia. The German empire has be-
come England's ally and he wanted the
world to know it to-day when he en-
braced the czar and drank his health.
An incident which does not escape sur
VIGILANCE is the relation Of diplomatic
secrets is made the day after the AM
erican elections in which the party in
power has secured a general verdict of
popular approval.
~Diplomatists here assume with conf
dence that England has not sacrificed
American friendship or interests in the
Samoan settlement and that the parti-
ton of tribes has received the sanction
of the three powers concerned in the tri-
partite convention which had ceased to
be a practical method of governing a
group. leader writer's for the press
take this view and also forecast a hearty
German cooperation in the state de-
partment's new policy requiring Euro
pean 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, indeed, points to the full
accord of the three powers in all these
arrangements. The German emperor,
warned last year that his attitude to-
| ward America has helped to bring the
United States and England into close and
friendly relations. has made approaches
to both and the three greatest industrial
commercial nations of the world are now.
brought into a circle of good feeling n
common interests without a formal con-
| vention or an e~ntangling alliance.