The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-24
INTERESTS TO BE PROTECTED
EMPEROR WILLIAM DETERMINE
GERMANY Jus NOT SUFFER.
Close of the Parliamentary Session
Celebration at Mayence of h
Birth of John Guttcnburgs

nave Utmost completely swept inc Oouti
African war from public attention. Even
the latest Pretoria news went uncom-
mented on except by the military. About
Chinese events the Foreign Office uses great
reticence, and above all studiously avoids
admitting that the present events mean
an actual and probably bitter and pro-
tracted war with China This may be part
ly owing to the attacks of the Radical and
Socialist press. which maintains that the
present rising of the Chinese against the
foreign. devils. is directly or indirectly
due to the German seizure of Kiao-Chou.
In this the papers are strengthened by the
public utterances of the German missionary
bishop of Shan-Tung, Won Amer, who re-
Gently described. the disastrous effect on
missionary work of the Kiao-Chou seizure.
In political circles here 1t is known that
the Foreign Office was quite surprised by
the increasingly serious character of the
Chinese uprising. While it is true Baron
Won Ketteler, the German minister at
Picking, sent two months ago a detailed
report from Picking containing alarming
advices from the German consuls through
out China and predicting serious trouble
before long. not much Importance was paid
"a W Wis AOPOA( "a t4tbtCACA Noo
new in Picking. But though the Emperor
and Count Won Buelow, the minister of
foreign affairs, did not attach much i'm
| portance to the news from China, they are
now thoroughly aroused. His Majesty de-
clared Friday at Kiel that German interests
in China under no circumstances must be
allowed to suffer no matter how great the
sacrifices.
The bulk of the German press takes the
same view. The Kreuz Zeitung prints an
interesting editorial. saying: 1T is quite
uncertain what will be the final outcome of
the troubles in china 1t will be impossible
to re-establish a vigorous, authoritative
central government at Picking, such as the
powers desire and will need. Presumably
they will be obliged to enlarge and give
definite shape to the sphere OF interest
policy and 10 further divide China, either
with or without leaving a nominal central
| government at Picking. To several of the
powers the present crisis came too quickly,
which further endangers the situation"
The Foreign Office says that its latest
news from Tien-Tsin is substantially the
same as that set forth in the statement of
the Rt. Hon. St--John Frederick. under
House of Commons in London. The For
eign Office states, however, that 1.-The
Chinese soldiers have made desperate re-
s~istance to the international forces. which
again proves that il will be necessary for
the powers to continue their present policy
of jointly enforcing order in China and also
the necessity for harmonious action be-
tween the powers
Lord Cough, the British charge d'afaires
IN Berlin, to-day said to the correspondent
of the Associated Press that he doubted
IL the powers had yet exchanged views
concerning the future status of the Chi
nese government or what would be done
| with the dowager Empress and those allied
with her. The only course at present, he
thought, is to enforce order and protect
Europeans.
The parliamentary season is now fairly
| closed and the Cabinet officials here have
begun their summer vacations. Prince Won
Hohenlohe, the imperial chancellor. to-day
left for Ragatz, Switzerland, to take the
baths. Baron R~heinbaden, minister of the
interior, in a fortnight will go to England.
Herr Thielen, minister of public works,
has left the city. and Count P~osadowsky
Wehner, secretary of state for the inter
Tor, will leave during the coming week.
| Among the diplomats who have left Berlin
for the summer recess is Sir Frank Las
| celles, the British ambassador.
DIR. Lieber. the Centrist leader, will soon
begin a long trip abroad, which will in
clude a visit to the United States. The
tour will be made partly for recreation and
| partly Tor study
| To-day before leaving for the convention
in Bremen of the German Free Trade So
| ciety, DR.. Theodore Barth, the Freissin-
inge leader, said to the correspondent of
| the Associated Press: IN the light against
| an increase in the agricultural duties as
the Agrarians want them fixed in the COM
ing commercial treaties, much will de-
pend on the iaboring classes. If they or
4 eanfze an enerRetic camDaign against Such
increased price on the necessaries of life,
which are TO be made for the benefit of
a few thousand large estate holders. the
| projected increase will be prevented"
The semi-millennia celebration of the
birth of John Gutenberg, the inventor of
printing. began to-day at Mayence. The
fete to-day consisted of the opening of a
typographical and historic exposition, with
fine exhibits from the state printing es-
| Establishments and the departments in Ber-
lin. Vienna, Paris, Lisbon. Madrid and ST.
Petersburg A performance of Handlers
'Macabeus' viii occur tomorrow; also an
academical celebration in the city hall.
Then will follow a musical and oratorical
| celebration at the Gutenberg monument.
The TIE Deum will be sung at this place by
600 boy choristers- On Monday will follow
a magnificent historical procession.
| Among those in line will be 5000 men, wom-
en- and children clad in the costume of the
/ fifteenth century. There will be forty-one
big floats drawn by 500 horses. A grand
banquet will follow in the evening. as well
| as evening concerts. The Gutenberg mu-
! scum will also be founded the same. day.
| Delegates from scores of scientific insti-
tutions in France. England. Italy and
| America are in attendance upon this cele-
bration, among them Prof. Hunt, Of
Princeton University.
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The famous Spanish bull fighter Gerrita
Is now a patient at Professor B~ergmann's
clinic hospital and will undergo a danger
Gus operation.
Comparatively few Americans are passing
through Berlin. fewer even than during the
Spanish-American war. They seem to con-
fine themselves to the Rhine and the Ober-
| ammagau regions.
AS indicating the increased interest in
American matters taken by the German
newspapers. IL is worth noting that the
great German newsgathering organization,
man press an interesting weekly American
mail letter. written by a special CORE
spondent In New York
Ambassador A d. White and Mrs White
have been spending two days at Halbertad.
Ambassador White will go to Leipsic on
the Fourth of July. where he will probably
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