The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-12
GERMAN PRESS IS BITTER
Insisting That We Must Disavow
Admiral Kautz' Action.
SEMI = OFFICIAL WORDS
The Emperor and Baron Won Buelow
Said to Have Changed Their Views
and the Tone of the Newspapers
Seems to Indicate 1t.

Berlin, April 1.-THE Lokal Anzeiger
to-day prints an interview with DR..
Raffel, in which he is quoted as say
ing THE decision of Chief Justice
Chambers in regard to Tanu was partly
due to the fact that Mataafa is a Cath
| Ole. while Tanu is Protestant prose-
| lyte of the English missionaries. Ma
| taafa is the only king the Samoans will
| tolerate. There has been a sudden
| veering of views upon the part of both
| the minister of foreign affairs, Baron
| Won Bulow, and the emperor"
A foreign official said tonight to the
| correspondent Of the associated press
| that Germany, in beginning an inves-
| tigation of the commissioners work.
| must insist upon the American and
| British governments unmistakably dis
avowing the fragrant violations COM
| mitted by Admiral Kautz and Captain
| Sturde. In the absence Of disavowal,
| for Germany to join the commission
would be mere farce. He added:
| When the commission starts 1T must
| start on the status quo and not on
status created by the illegal acts of sub
| ordinates in Samoa
| More energetic still is the semi-of
| cial statement of the Hamburg Corre-
| spondencia. which declares that "if
| England and America do not heed the
diplomatic remonstrances made in Lon
don and Washington, these remon-
strances will be fortified adding:
| Germany insists upon receiving full
satisfaction for the number of breaches
committed in Samoa"
The tone of the German press during
| Iva Jo- Iny hos hnn
Inquiries made by the correspondent of
| the associated press a the foreign office
| have ELECTED the statement that moth
| ing is known of the alleged British an
nexation of the Tonga islands, and it is
| believed that such action has been
taken, as it is claimed that it would be
a gross violation of the Anglo-German
| agreement Of 1886
Washington, April 11.--A new turn
in Samoan affairs eresuited from a
| conference held by the German ambas
sador. DR.. Won Holleben, first with
Secretary Hay at the state department
and then at the British ambassadors
with Sir Julian Pauncefote, and Mr..
Elliott, the British high commissioner.
| Dr. Won Hollebens announcements
were particularly satisfactory with the
American and British authorities, COM
ing after the unofficial cables from
London and Berlin Indicating that a
| bassador made known the wish of the
| German government that the commits
sion should leave at once, catching the
boat from San Francisco next week.
He gave assurance that Germany would
cooperate to that end by naming her
commissioner, although he did not Of
ficially announce that Baron Sternberg
was to be the man.
Attention was next turned to getting
out the Joint instructions and hurrying
the commissioners away. If it becomes
impossible to catch the boat. arrange
ments may be made for a special
steamer from Honolulu and there Is
even a chance that the United States
may assign naval vessel to carry
the high commission to Samoa.
In an authoritative quarter it was
stated to-day that reports of a Ger
man protest against Kautz's course in
reference to the treatment of the crus-
er Fake were unwarranted. All the
negotiations. it is said in the highest
German quarters, are of such a char
acter as to bring the governments
more closely together instead of sep
arating them.
AS it has been strongly intimated in
the Berlin dispatches that the German
government was about ITO make a de-
mand for disavowal of Admiral
kautz's actions. it may be stated that
our government will certainly not ac-
| ceue TO any Sucn request III advance OIL
a full knowledge of all the facts in the
case and conviction that the admiral
acted wrongly. the presumption always
being that our officers have acted with
due propriety until the contrary is
shown to be the case.
If Admiral kautZ found Mataafa, the
self-constituted king, with his Is chiefs
dominating the affairs of the island, in
. volving the suspension of the functions
of the supreme court and of the nlunci-
pal council. formally and duly establish
ed by the treaty, then it was his duty
according to the state department, to
bring the conditions at once to con-
formity with the treaty. If this in
volved the dissolution of the provisional
government, there can be no legal COM
plant. it is said, by any one of the
three powers VINO have bound them
selves to carry out and maintain the
treaty of Berlin.
Some surprise is expressed by the de-
partment of state at the misconception
entertained in Germany of the terms of
Admiral Kautz's proclamation, and it
is pointed out that. according ITO the
terms of the proclamation as printed
here, Admiral KautZ did not say that
'al three consuls had expressed a
willingness to annul the provisional
government" but that a meeting o
the c0nSuls had been called and that 6
decision had been reached to annul the