The Anaconda standard., 1899-08-13
A NETWORK OF CANALS
The Ambitious Plans of the Ger
man Emperor.
RELATIONS WITH AUSTRIA
Bitter Feeling Against the Conglom-
crate Empire on Account of Slavic
Ascendancy-Cri of
England.

Copyrighted 1899 by Associated Press
Berlin, Aug. 12.-The diet will reas-
semble on Aug. 16. Prince Won Hohen-
lohe, the imperial chancellor, and DR..
Won MIGUEL vice president of the coun-
Gil and minister of finance, will return
in time to attend the sessions which
will decide the fate of the canal bill
and will throw the combined work of
their influence in favor of the measure
The government hopes the bill will pass
by the sufficient majority, especially
since Emperor William took occasion
at the opening of the Dortmund- Ems
canal to emphasize again the great need
OF such network of communicat ton
The ceremonies a the opening of the
canal yesterday We're quite imposing
and were intended to mark the import
ance of the new waterway. The canal
is 270 kilometres long, over eight feet
deep. and SO feet wide at the top, and
% feet wide at the bottom. 1t will en-
able vessels of 800 tons to go direct
from the Baltic. Bremen and Hamburg
to the new Dortmund harbor, where
they can discharge their cargoes $50
kilometres inland.
Germans relations with Austria
Hungary are the theme of much news
paper comment this week.. The fact
that Prince Won Hohenlohe, contrary
10 the custom since he became chan
cellor,h has not met Count Goulochowsky,
the Austro- Hungarian foreign minister,
thls year to talk over the policy of the
two empires and the further fact that
Emperor Francis Joseph in passing
through Ausse did not find time to get
on the railroad train to welcome the
German chancellor but contented him
self with hurriedly greeting the chan
cellor from the car and chatted with
him only seven minutes. are regarded
in POLITICAL circles as proof that the
relations between Germany and Aus
Hungary, despite the continuing of
the nominal alliance, have ceased to be
really intimate. Newspaper comment
and popular feeling throughout Ger
many have been for some time most
bitter because of the growing Slavic
ascendanCy in Austria Hungary. 1t is
asserted that Emperor William shares
this view, since the persecution of the
German element has become part of the
settled system.
A large and influential portion of the
press this week has reiterated these
sentiments and the government organs
do not confirm or deny the above state
ments. Several facts have come to the
surface which tend in the direction in
dicated. Thus the Prussian govern
ment has forbidden the lengthy stay,
and especially in the frontier districts
of Czech and other Austrian Slavs
The Austrian press protests against
this measure. The Saxon ministry of
the interior house issued decree that
all communications sent to Hungary
must bear only the German names of
the towns to which they are sent To
this the Hungarian press strongly de-
murs and is also stirred up over the
sending of Emperor Williams court
chaplain. Rogge, to unveil the German
monument at Hermannstadt. The cere-
mony Is regarded as a protest against
the MagyariZation movement in Hun
gary.
Samoa is still occupying a good deal
of attention and the press is full of
comment. the bulk of the criticism,
however, being directed against Eng
land
The mouthpiece of the agrarians, the
Deutsche Tage Zeitung, in bitter edi-
torial charges both England and the
United States with showing systematic
animosity toward Germany in the Sa-
moan muddle from beginning to end.
attacks the foreign Office for yielding
every point to these powers and says
from the start all claims to Samoa and
to have insisted on equivalents else
where.
The Cologne Gazette. however in an
inspired article. ridicules the notion
that Germany is making enemies of all
the powers over trifling differences.
The paper claims that the agrarians
stir UP the trouble with the United
States in order to render impossible
the formation of commercial treaties,
and this for their own selfish ends.
From semi-official reports is appears
that the German claims for property
destroyed in Samoa during the troubles
are not nearly so large as hitherto be-
lieyed, namely 800, 900 marks.
The recent utterances of Baron Won
Stengel of the Munich university, who
was second in rank in Germanys dele
cation at the peace conference, regard
ing The Hague gathering, are almost
unanimously disapproved in Germany
The National Zeitung says Baron Won
Stengeis private views are his own and
must not be confounded with the views
of the government.
The sending of delegates and models
to the Philadelphia exhibition has been
discussed warmly in the press this
week. A number of chambers of COM
merce of the Rhenish provinces Brand
enburg and Saxony decline TO partici-
pate, as have also a number of promi-
nent merchants. The argument mostly
is that participation means the foster
ing of American competition. The gov
ernment, however, takes a different
view and has taken pains to make it
public. The liberal press mostly as
eumes a friendly attitude.
The elevation of Count Won Munster
Ledenburg, the German ambassador tC
France, to the rank and title of Prince
Won der Herburg Is attributed gen