The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-12
GERMANY MAY MAKE DEMAND
FOR A DIsAvowAL OF ADMIRAL
KAUTZ's ACTIONS
UNITED STATES Will REFUSE
HAMBURG CORRESPONDENT SAYS
SAMOAN REMONsTRANCEs MADE
MAY BE FORTIFIED
GERMAN PRESS Is BITTER

Statement Made That Germany VIII
Insist Upon Receiving Full satfs-
faction for the Number of
Breaches Committed-Inyest
ton of Commfssion's Work
Would Be Farce Otherwise.
BERLIN, April 1.-Dr. Joannes RaffeI,
the former German president of the mu
mclpal council of Apia, Samoa, has ar
rived here and has had several long con-
ferences with the officials of the German
foreign office.
The Lokal Anzeiger today prints an
interview with DR.. Raffei, in which he Is
quoted as saying:
1.-The decision Of Chief Justice Cham
bers in favor Of Tanue was partly due to
the fact that Mataafa is a Catholic,
while Tanus is proselyte of the English
missionaries.
"Mataafa is the only king the samo-
ans will tolerate. There has been a sud-
den veering of views upon the part of
both the minister of foreign affairs,
Baron Won Buelow, and the emperor
MAY ASK A D1SAVOWAL.
A foreign Office official said tonight to
the correspondent here of the Associated
Press, in energetic language, that Ger
many, before engaging in an investiga-
ton of the commissions work, must in
sist upon the American and British gov
ernments Enthusiastically disavowing the
fragrant violations committed by Admiral
Kautz and Capt. Sturdee. In the alb
sence of disavowal. for Germany to
farce. He added:
when the commission starts it must
start on the status quo, and not on a
status created by the illegal acts of SUBJ
ordinates in Samoa"
More energetic still is the semi-offlcial
announcement of the Hamburg corre-
spondent which declares that eff Eng
land and America do not heed the diplo-
matte remonstrances made In London
and Washington these remonstrances will
be fortified" adding:
Germany insists upon receiving full
satisfaction for the number of breaches
committed In Samoa
GERMAN PRESS BITTER.
/. The tone of the German press during
Inquiries made by the correspondent
of the Associated Press at the foreign
Office have ELECTED the statement that
nothing is known of the alleged British
annexation of the Tonga islands, and it
is not believed such action has been TAX
en-, as it is claimed 1t would be a griev-
Gus violation of the Anglo-Germau
agreement of 1886.
U. S. WILL NOT ACCEDE.
WASHINGTON, April 11.-As it has
been strongly intimated in the Berlin dis
patches that the German government
was about to make a demand for a dis
avowal of Admiral Kantzs action, 1t
may be stated that our government will
certainly not accede to any such request
in advance of a full knowledge of all the
facts in the case and a conviction that
the admiral acted wrongly, the presump-
ton always being that our officers have
acted with due proprfety, until the con-
trary is shown to be the case.
If Admiral Kautz found Mataafa the
self constituted king with his thirteen
chiefs dominating the affairs of the island.
involving the suspension of the functions
of the supreme court and OF the mu-
nicipal council formally and duly estab-
lished by treaty, then 1t was his duty, ac-
cording to the state department, to bring
the conditions at once to conformity with
the treaty If this involves the dissolu-
ton of the provisional government there
can be no legal complaint, 1t is said, by
any one of the three treaty powers who
have bound themselves to carry out and
maintain the treaty of Berlin. The fact
that the three consuls at Apia in mo-
ment of excitement sanctioned the estab-
lishment of the provisional government,
though regretted here, is not regarded as
affecting the merits of the American and
British contention, as these three officials.
1T is said, had no right to do anything in
contravention of the treaty such as was
involved in the suspension of part OF the
machinery of the government provided
for by that convention.
SURPRISE IS EXPRESSED.
Some surprise is expressed by the de-
partment officials at the misconception
entertained In Germany of the terms of
Admiral Kautz's proclamation, and IT. is
pointed out that. according to the terms
of the proclamation as printed here, Ad-
mfral Kautz did not say that 'all three
consuls had expressed willingness to
annul the provisional government" but
that a meeting of the ccnsuls had been
called and a decision had been reached to
annul the provisional arrangement.
The new turn in affairs resulted from
conferences of the German ambas-
sador, Dr. Won Holleben, first with Secre-
tary Hay at the state department and
then at the British embassy with Sir
Julian Pauncefote and Mr.. Eliot, the
British high commissioner. DIR. Won Hol-
lebens announcements were particularly
agreeable to the American and British
authorities, coming after the unofficial
cables from London and Berlin indicating
that serious hitch might occur. The
German ambassador made known the
wish of the German government that the
commission should leave at once, catch
ing the boat from San francisco next
week. He gave assurances that Germany
would cooperate to this end by naming
her commissioner, although he did not Of
ficially announce that Baron Sternberg
was to be the man.
Attention vas next turned to getting
ont the Joint instructions and hurrying
the commissioners away. If it becomes
impossible to catch the boat on the 18th,
arrangements may be made for a special
steamer from Honolulu, and there is even
a chance that the United States may as
sign a naval vessel to carry the higa
commission to Samoa This courtesy
would undoubtedly be extended If the
warships were not so actively engaged at
the present time.
In an authoritative quarter 1t was
stated today that reports of German
protest against Admiral Kautz's course in
reference to treatment of the German
cruiser Fake are unwarranted. The
negotiations, 1t is said in highest German
quarters, are of character to bring
the governments more closely together
] instead of separating them.