The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-13


Berlin. Aug. 12.-Samoa Is still oc-
cupving a good deal of attention and
the press is full of comment, the bulk
of the criticism, however, being direct
ed against England
The mouthpiece of the agrarians, the
Deutsche Tages 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
if would have been wiser to rencunce
from the start all claims to Samoa and
TO have insisted on equivalents else
where.
insured article. ridicules the notion
that Germany is making enemies of all
the mowers over trifiing differences. The
paper claims that the ASrarlans sir
nm the trouble with the United States
in order 10 render impossible the for
nation of commercial treaties anu TINS
for their own selfish ends
From semi-official reports it appears
that the German claims COR property
DESTROYED in Samoa during the troubles
are not nearly so large as hitherto pc
ueved, namely 30O,0i9 marks
The recent utteranceS OF Earon Won
StengeI. of the Munich university, who
was second III rank in Germany : dele
cation at the peace conference regard
ing The Hague gathering are almost
unanimously disapproved in Germany
The National Zeitung says Baron Won
Steneei's private views are his own and
must not be c1a:ounded with the views
of the government.
Fate of the Canal Bill.
The diet will reassemole en- Aug. 16.
Prince Won Eohenlone, the imperial
chancellor and DIR. Won MIGUEL, We
president Of the council AMI minister
of finance. will return III lime 10 attend
the sessions which viii decide the tate
of the canal bill and will throw the
combined work of their influence IN
favor of the measure. The government
hopes the bill viii pass by a sufficient
majority. especially since Emperor Will
liam took occasion at the opening OF
the Dortmund-Ens canal to emphasize
again the great need Of such net
work Of communication
The ceremonies at 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 20 kilometers long, over eight feet
Seep and ninety-three feet wide at the
top, and fifty-seven feet wide at the
bottom. 1t will enable vessels of 900
tons to go direct from the Baltic, Bre-
men and Hamburg to the New bort
mund narbor. where they can discharge
their cargoes $50 kilometers inland.
Germany's relations with Austria
Hungary are the theme of much news
paper comment this week. The fact
that Prince Won Hohenlohe. contrary
to the custom since he became chan-
celIor has not met Count GoluchoWSkl,
the Austro- Hungarian foreign minister,
this 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
off 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 re-
lations between Germany and Austro-
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.
Relations Are Cool.
a large and influential portion of the
press this week has reiterated senti-
ments. and the government organs do
not confirm or deny the above state
lnents- Several facts have come to the
surface which tend in the direction in
Dictated. 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 has issued a decree that all
IIYnNz re-
bear only the German names of the
towns 10 which they are sent. To this
the Hungarian press strongly demurs.
and is also much stirred up over the
sending of Emperor Williams court
chaplain, ROgSe, TO unNeil the German
monument at Hermanstadt. The cere-
mony is regarded as Il protest against
the Reorganization movement in Hun
gary
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
nerce OF the Rhenish provinces, Bran
Genburg and Saxony, decline to par
ticipate. as have also number of
prominent merchants. The argument
mostly is that participation means the
fostering of American competition. The
government. however, takes different
View, and has taken pains TO make it
public. The liberal press mostly as
sumes a friendly attitude
Elevation of Count Won Munster.
The elevation OF Count Won Munster
Ledenburg, the German ambassador to
France, to the rank and title of Prince
Won Der Herburb. is attributed gener-
ally TO his patient and successful en-
deavors 10 render the relations between
Germany and France gradually more
pleasant. Most of the papers approve
of the award.
The Norwaerts alone says the time
for the promotion was unhappily
chosen. since it comes in the midst of
the Dreyfus trial. and the anti-revision-
list press will make it the occasion Of
new chauvinistic calumnies and
charges. and the even tenor OF justice |
may thereby be impeded.
A clear sign of the improved French |
German relations is found in the fact !
that commission OF German and !
French army officers is now engaged in |
the geodetical measurements of the |
frontier for the purpose of bringing
the official measurement of both coun- |
tries into complete accord.
A duel between two officers of the I
Tenth Uhlan regiment, Count SolnIs |
and Count Shulenburg. was fought ,nis |