The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1900-10-25
GERMANY NOT SINCERE
rhe Conclusion Forced Upon
Washington Officials.
HAS RECALLED HER MINISTER
His Only O@enss Wss fs Bslng Zee
Conciliatory-He Has Sailed
for the Father Land.

New York, Oct. 22.-Detrust OF Ger.
many's attitude in China has been re-
vived a. . result Of information TO
ceived here showing the hostility of the
Berlin government to . policy of CON.
cilistion in the settlement of the far.
Eastern question. says Q Washington
correspondents of the Herald. II IL
learned that the recall of Baron Speck
Won Sternberg. the charge d'affairs.
was due to his efforts to smooth the
road looking to . prompt, peaceful
solution of the Chinese trouble. Baron
Won Sternberg returned to Berlin on
the steamer Deutschland.
Among the friends of Baron Won
Sternberg in the official circles here
deep surprise Was felt when the news
of his removal from Washington was
first noised about. His relations with
the administration were of the most
cordial character, and the officials gem
orally conceded that he was doing much
to make q satisfactory solution in
China possible.
Exact details as to Baron Won Stern
berg's recall are impossible to obtain,
as none of the officials of the German
embassy will talk about the matter,
and the state Departments does not seem
to be fully advised OH the subject. II
is known. however. that Baron Won
SternberY, while eudeavoring to carry
out the several instructions he had re.
ceived, presented proposals to this gov
eminent in a more conciliatory fashion
than the Berlin authorities had con-
templated. Being on the ground, Bar.
on Won Sternberg appreciated that it
would be advisable in the interest of
harmonious relations between both gov.
.rnments for him to be less positive
than his instructions required.
Officials here are very deeply grieved
over Baron Won Stelnberg's recall, as
they say he has certainly aided in pre-
serving good relations between the two
powers. 1t is pointed out that If lie
had acted in an offensive manner the
answers made to the German notes
would not have been different from
those given. Undoubtedly Germany
was greatly chagrined by the refusal of
the United States to accede to its
proposition to make the surrender Of
the Chinese guilty of outrages precedent
to negotiations, inasmuch as the attitude
of this government made the rejection
of the proposal certain. It was prob
ably this feeling that had much to do
with Baron Won Sternberg's recall.
Baron Won Sternberg was instru-
mental in allaying much of the sus-
picion which existed here regarding the
purposes of Germany in China, but his
recall for the reason understood here,
indicates that the Berlin government
would have preferred developments
which would have delayed an early set
.lement. An official recently recalled
that Baron Won SternberR was largely
responsible for the satisfactory solution
of the Samoan imbroglio; that this was
due to the virtual withdrawal by this
government from any claims to the
Caroline islands it must have possessed
growing out of the war with Spain,
and generally that he had worked ear
nestly for the improvement of the good
relations between the two countries.