The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-10-22
GERMAN PRESS
ANT|-BR|T|SH
Opposes England as it Did the
United States.
HOPES FOR BOEF s4sUCCESS
The Kreuse Zeit - Refers to
"Mammon 3 s Ship"
v0" SuEL0w DO . WANT lEYOs
Question of Whether This Attitude of
Question of Whether This Attitude of
Strict Neutrality is Wise
Caustic Reference to
General Otis.

Copyright, 1899, by the Associa ted Press).
Berlin, October H.-The German press is
just as unanimously anti-BritiSh in the
TranSvaal war as 1T was anti-American in
the war between the United States and
Spain. Even the liberal papers, although
politically and commercially they have all
along sought and found an ideal in Eng
land, now strongly disapprove England'S
procedure in varied but never compli-
mentary utterances.
The speakers in the British parliament
are characterized as 'ihypocritical' and the
British people and government are de-
scribed as 'devoured by land hunger" and
by greed for Transvaal gold.'
The Kreuse zeitung says:
THE peace conference at The Hague ac-
complished at least something; for still
more than the verdict given by that in
fernational tribunal, the unanimous opin-
ion of the whole world is against England's
proceedings, which is due to mammon
worship alone. Everywhere the verdict is
that greed and hunger for gold and land
don't confer tine right to go to war;"
The Frankfurter Zeitung says:
The specious phrase, England is COM
PEELED to begin war because the Beers will
not grant the same rights to the Uitlanders
as the burghers possess is repeated over
and over again. 1t has been used by the
English poet laureate, by ministers in par
lament, and by Jne press, but that does
not make the phrase true"
To the complaint of The English press
that the entire press of Germany sides
with uhe Beers, the Deutsche Tages Zei-
tung replies:
Quite SO. We all wish and hope that
England may meet wiun defeat; and tlhis
is quite aside from our sympa tnies with
the Boers. The whole German people think
as we do"
The Lokal Anzeiger says: ~
O.is rtId.cuied
1.-The English seem to have taken pattern
by the American General Otis In sending
out bulletins of victory in which he kills
several times many Filipinos as the
whole insurgent army contains, though he
does not dare to go beyond the close vicini-
ty of Manila"
The press censorship instituted IN Natal
is characterized as worse than .z.dssian."
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 con-
ferring with the emperor Tuesday, tele-
graphed to DR.. Leyds hint that a visit
just now would be slightly embarrassing,
and that his purpose would certainly not be
furthered by 1t.
The Associated Press learns from a for
eign office officials in the confidence Of
Count Won Buelow that the latter said:
I'VE 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
ber of the Russian embassy said to the AS
ISOLATED Fress correspondent: 1.-The steps
for the preservation of peace undertaken by
Russia are likely to miscarry, because Ger-
many just now adheres to her Anglophile
policy. Germany's attitude alone made Mr..
Chamberlain's bold advance possible Ger-
many is in a measure responsible for the
prospective subjection of the Transvaal.
She is on the point Of earning substantial
rewards from England, but these gains will
not counterbalance the losses she will su5-
tain because of their aid to England"
"It will be Germanys doing If England so
soon becomes all powerful In Africa, and
Germany will be the first to feel the conses
quences." -