Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23
GERMAN PRESS FALLS IN LINE.
Kaiser Sees to the Manufacture OF senti-
ment Favorable TO England.

Berlin. Dec 22,-h gradual veerlng OF
public opinlnon in Germany regarding
the war in South Africa Is becoming APP
parent. The change is led by the In
spired section Of the press. Today sew
eral articles appear pointing In the new
direction.
The Cologne Gazette argues strongly
against the folly Of deIhonstratiye
Anglophobia." 1t says "Germanys
real interest is 10 maintain absolute
retain England's good will II Germany
intends 10 develop colonlally."
The Berllner Post contains an OBJ,
viously Inspired article, In which this
argument is made: South African
confederation Is impossible without
harbors and seashore, England as q
great power is necessary for the main
tenance OF the worlds political equi-
librium; and Germany's policy will be
to keep friends with England"
The Kreuz Zeitung also contains to-
day this paragraph; There is no doubt
the government is beginning 10 bring
the weight OF its influence on the press
to bear in favor Of England. The same
is true regarding the army. navy and
official world. Emperor Williams in
fiuence Is now strongly exerted In an
Anglophile direction II is said on re-
liable authority that he has repeatedly
expressed himself during the week In
the following vein: We must not re,
neat last years mistake Right or
wrong, we must continue friends with
England
Foreign office officials admitted today
TO the correspondent Of the Associated
Press that Germany would, in all prob
ability, sign the protocol Of the peace
conference before New Years day.
The Berliner Tageblatt has begun the
publication OF series of articles re-
gardlng Germany-American commercial
relations, pointing out their importance
and the necessity for maintaining and
improving them.
Emperor William, who has beer suf-
fering from a cold for several days, Ia
now much improved and will attend the
unwilling In the Slegess alice OF the
monument to his ancestor, Elector
George william. His majesty win
spend Christmas with the imperial
family at New Palace. Potsdam, where
the elder sons have already arrived for
the holidays.
The small Thuringian governments
are systematically expelllng Czechs
from their territories. There have been
forty explosions during the present
month, and the matter will form the
subject OF discussion in the Austrian
parliament.
Official reports received by the gov
eminent regarding the crime Of Prince
Arenberg, who was recently court-mar-
tailed In German Southwest Africa for
killing o. subordinate without provoca-
ton, and who is being brought here
for sentence, show that the offense was
much worse than the first reports In
dictated.
Prince Arenberg, who ~ a nephew
Of the Centrist leader IN the reichstae
OF the same name. not only murdered,
but fcndishly tortured his victim whilc
dying. There We're thirty-three eye
witnesses Of the atrocity. The murdered
man was half-breeed named Willie
Keen, the son OF an Englishman and a
freed woman. The Berlin prees ex-
presses considerable curiosity as 10
what punishment VIII be meted out to
the offender.
Herr Fritzplank, the famous Beyrout
Wagnerian singer fell thirty feet In
the royal theater al Carlsruhe. sus-
tanning fatal injuries.