The age-herald., 1900-10-15
CHINESE AFFAIRS
 ABSORB INTEREST
German Press Discusses Situa-
 tion in the East.
RUSSIA'S PLAN RlOlCULED
Suggestion to Submit Question to the Hague Arbitration Court Finds Little Favor-Dowager Elm
 press Condition

Berlin, October 14-The United States answer to the French note may be said to be generally approved here, neither the press nor the government desiring to af- front France by openly urging objections. A number of papers express astonishment at the fact that the United States has so rapidly treasured a more energetic attitude toward China and attributes the change to Secretary Hay The Cologne Volkg points out that the United States swoop- ing demands including Prince Tuans execution and the United States withdraw al of troops are contradictory, and ex- plainable only by the intricacies of the present political campaign"
 The Lokal Anzerger discussing the United States political campaign edltori- ally, says:
 Germany cannot sympathze with eith- CT Mckinley or Bryan as they both stand for ant-German interests"
 Private dispatches from St. Petersburg say Prince Yuan has gone into the inter for of China where with the consent of the insincere Chinese government, he is arousing the population to arms against the foreigners
 Russia, 1t is added, believes that the best way to solve the present problem is to humble the Sian Flu Court and bring the Chinese to terms. The imperial party 1t is pointed out at St. Petersburg would thus be cut off from supplies of money and fooodstuffs.
 Thes Russian suggestion to submit the Chinese question to The Hague arbitration court is ridicued by the press with the PXpapt,On n Tn which endorses the plan and says:
 "A just court would award higher dam ages to China than to the allies who. by their system of conquest and exploration provoked the present rising"
 The Hague Suggestion
 A foreign office official informed a rep resentative of the Associated Press who questioned him regarding the Hague sug- gestion that this plan is impracticable since the work of estimating the damages must be done in China. Arbitration, he added, would cause great delay, pointing out that arbitration was merely suggested by Russia"
 Government circles, though the officials are not willing to say so for publication, continue to believe the Chinese campaign will last long, probably for years, unless Emperor Knang Su is induced to return N Pekin, which is not deemed very likely
 The German foreign office has no late news from Field Marshal Count Walder- see, or Dr. Mumm Won Schwartzenstein, the German minister to China Referring to the remarks in the foreign press that Count Von Waldersee will not find any Americans Russians or Japanese at Pekin fO command a fOreipn offioar ic ble for the remark that this is not true of the Japanese since they are still at Pc Chi Lu."
 Germany's official attitude toward the United States answer to the French note is set forth today in the Cologne Gazette in an article apparently inspired. In brief it is as follows:
 "The answer as a whole, meets with ap- probation both for its line and the extent. The answer is calculated to enhance har- mony among the powers in their endeavor to obtain damages for crimes committed and guarantees against their recurrence. The answer strongly dwels upon punish ing the real ringleaders and suggests SUD- plement from the list of the leaders This entirely accords with the wishes of the German government"
 Claim for Damages
 Regarding the claim for damages, the for eign officers official said: Germany has not yet been able to take definite attitude on the subject. Russia's suggestion is not defin- ite enough. It can hardly be supposed that Russia intends to submit the claims of Rus sia and those of the other powers to the arbitration courN Probably Russia means pre-eminently those damages which China must pay to the missions destroyed by the Boxers, and to private persons injured. In that case the proposition would be worth considering although Its practical reAliza- tion is difficult. It must not be forgotten that the international arbitration court at the Hague Is not organized. Therefore, 1t would seem that decision can be more easily reached by an arbitration court meet ing In China"
 Professor Renvera who Is the best Ger man authority on kidney complaints, after weeks of attendance upon the Dowager Elm press Frederick, returned to Berlin today The professor told representative of the Associated Press that there Is no immediate danger of his patients life, as the acute symptoms have disappeared
 The Saxon government has prohibited the naturalization of Czech and Polish immi-