The record-union., 1899-12-24
Christmas Weather Is Now Prevail
ing at Berlin.
The Spree Frozen Solid. and Skaters 3
Having a Merry Time.
Public Opinion Fast Changing in
Favor OF Great Britain in the
War With the Boers-Papers
Teen With Discussion of Eng
lands Position in the Future.

| Copyrighted, 1899, by Associated Press)
| BERLIN, Dec. 23.-Cold, crisp, white
Christmas weather prevails here. The
Spree is frozen solid, the big Mueggel-
see is alive with skaters, and everybody
! is busy with preparations for Christ
mas. Business is brisk, and many now
elites are exhibited in the stores. I'm
fortunately, there is a scarcity Of
Christmas trees, owing to the deep
snow in the Hartz Mountains and ev-
erywhere.
The change in public opinion in favor
of Great Britain continues. Even the
Hamburger Nachrichten." which hith-
erto has been intensely Anglophobe,
prints a communication to-day from a
Hamburg merchant, protesting against
blinden Englanderhass (blind Anglo
phobia).
The papers are full of communica-
| tons from literary writer's on the SUBJ
ject of war; The "Neuste Nachrichten''
to-day contains an article pointing out
that the military success of the Beers.
numbering a quarter of million.
against nation which at home alone
numbers 30,000,000, is explained be-
cause the Beers are armed with the
| OCSl lliOQtiH IillSS, clIO hIloW llOW W
use them. The British, the writer adds,
undervalued their adversary, and failed
to appear on the scene with numerical
superiority, while their strategy was
largely ordered in London. Again. he
points out, all the British Generals
neglected accommodating, and We're de-
ficient in the A B c of field service.
| On the other hand, the military critic
in the "Boersen Courier maintains
that no modern war has been so devoid
of interesting features. of theoretical
and strategic lessons, and that the
British have proved their stupendous
"assinity as a military nation in an I'M
paralleled manner"
! The papers also continue to discuss
| the probability as to Great Britain's
position hereafter, since they claim her
| total collapse as military power has
been proved by this war. The usually
well informed 'Kreuz Zeitung" contains
a letter from a high parsonage at st.
| Petersburg, claiming that the question
as to whether it is advisable to use
Great Britain's powerlessness is again
seriously considered in Russian Govern
ment circles
The military power is urging the
| timeliness for an Asiatic advance. The
correspondent of the Associated Press
can assert on high authority, that as
concerns Germany no such step will be
| joined in I'm Ter any circumstances, but
that fun neutrality will be maintained
10 the end.
During 1900 the North German Lloyd
Premen COMPANY will plan lines to
Singapore, Herbertshohe, Sidney and
Samoa, and to Hongkong, Ponape,
Herbertshohe, Observation-Disclosures
and Sydney, while the Jaluit Company
will also start line making a circuit
of the Carolines and Marannes.
| A sensational trial has just been end
ed by the sentencing of Herr Joachim
! Ghelzen. editor of a Charlottenburg pa
! per. to eighteen months in Jail for sys-
tematically Matchmaking financially IN
secure banks and similar institutions.
Herr Ghelzan during Prince Bismarck
| time, headed the press campaign
against Prince Bismarck, instigated by
number of his court clique enemies.
| The latest administrative measure
against Prussian public teachers is an
order forbidding them to go hunting, on
the ground that 1t is an immoral pas
time.
| Former Lieutenant Breuezwitz, who
as a German army officer murdered
civilian workman, has gone to join the
Beers. A private letter from him says
he has been appointed commander Of a
| battery in the TransvaaL