Evening star., 1900-09-25
THE POWERS LACK HARMONY
GERMANY's ATTITUDE Is CAUSE Of
DISSATISFACTION.
Russia Trying to Get Kaiser to Modify
His PropOsal-Little Chance
of Success.


announcement has been issued in St.
Petersburg that the European cabinets are
engaged in an endeay or to induce Germany
to abandon her demand for the surrender
Of the instigators Of the antf-foreign out
RACES as preliminary to peace negotiations.
The Vienna correspondent Of the Daily
Chronicle asserts that Russias reply to the
German note is very friendly, but that, al
though 1t appears to consent to Germany 8
proposal. 1t practically disapproves by ask
ing whether 1t would not be best to open
peace negotiations first and to make the
punishment of the instigators of the out
RACES the first subject of discussion Ac-
cording to the Berlin correspondent Of the
Daily Express, Germany will make new
PROPOSAL namely, that the great powers
form international court to try the Chi
nese officials accused of completely In the
outrages.
The Morning Post has the following from
its Shanghai correspondent, dated yester-
day: 1.-The Russians recently organized an
expedition toward Mukden. which has al
ready reached Liao Yang, about midway
between Niu Chwang and Mukden. 1t will
probably encounter opposition.
Prince Tuan's ascendancy creates very
grave danger. The only hope for foreign
ers is that the pro-foreign ytceroy OF Nam
kin has not yet been removed. Tuan'S
emissaries are working hard to get him out
of the way by murder suicide
The British and continental press IS still
discussing Americas reply, which is gen.
orally regarded as encouraging Ii Hung
Chang to delay the negotiations.
dispatch from Berlin says:
The refusal of the United States to ac
cede to GermanyS proposition regarding the
Chinese settlement is prominently COM
mented upon by the entire German press.
In spite of the previous intimations through
Washington cablegrams, the refusal has
come as a great surprise.
A high foreign office official. referring to
the matter today said: Germany adheres
firmly to her proposition. She has no occa-
sion to doubt that favorable answers will
come from all the other powers. We have
received hints that Russia will agree to the
German note, and the same course is conf
IDENTIFY expected of Japan and Great Britain
We hope the answer of the United States Is
not final, especially in view of the possibil-
ity that 1t was influenced by temporary
conditions
The press comment varies widely, al
though generally in a tone of dsapproval
and regret. The Voss!sche Zeitung deplores
the evidences of growing discord among
the powers and predicts speedy breaking
up of concerted action. The Frankfurter
Zeitung remarks: AN unpleasant sequence
of the American position will probably be
the increasing obduracy of the Chinese,
whose opinion is now strengthened that the
energies of the other powers will be inter-
mittent, like those of the United States"
The National Zeitung likewise deplores
the part of the powers" 1t points out that
their interests clash at too many points for
permanent cooperation and asserts that
the answer of the United States merely
begs the question involved"
The Neuste Nachrichten observes: "Tt is
strange that the reply of the United States
does not even attempt to meet the logic of
the German note with logic This can only
be understood in the light Of the delicacy
of the American internal political situa-
ton"
The Lokal Anzeiger says that "the fulfill
ity of the American answer is best proved
by last nights news from China. the ref
erence being to the reported appoin tments
of Boxer leaders to high positions. The
Tages Zeitung, which calls Washngton's
reply "shoddy trick" says that the United
States government must know that China
herself will never punish the guilty The
Berlfner Tageblatt declares that "the isola-
ton of the United States is now an accom-
plished fact, which is received here with
equanlm!ty.' The Boersen Courier ac-
knowledges that the American note does
not contain sny anmus against the policy
of Germany, and predicts that 1t will not in
nuence Germany's future action in China.
semi-oftcial communidue to the Cologne
Gazette disavnwing any desire on the part
OF Germany to execute the instigators of
the outrage on the strength of the testi-
mcny of the foreign ministers saws: 1.-The
international court of justice would decide
upon the question of guilt and would pro-
nounce sentence. To look on compla Gently
while mockery of Justice such as the
United States demand was being enacted
would mean renewal Of the massacres'
Commenting upon the reproaches which
the Cologne Gazette and other German pa
pers have leveled against the United States
the Berlin correspondent OF the Times saws:
Whatever may be thought of the attitude
of the United States, 1t hardly seems wise,
from n diplomatic point of view, to hurl
these taunts at a nation which, as expert
ence has shown. is by no means in the habit
OF pocketing or forgetting such attentions