The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-12-07
AS VIEWED IN GERMANY.
The rress and Country Divided on Emp~r,.
williams Refusal to Meet
Paui Kruger.

Berlin. Dec. 4.-Thc government.
curt intimation that Emperor William
would not bc able to receive Mr.. Krp.
ger has created profound impress
sion throughout Germany. What may
be called the anti-l,ritish section az
the press does not conceal IT'S annoy-
ance. and the moderate Anglophobs
organs with difficulty repress utter
ances of disappointment.
The inspired journals declare that
il was Germany's desire to intimate
definitely that Mr.. Krugcr's visit would
not be welcome, and, therefore. the fact
that he omitted to comply with the
strict etiquette of the German court
and deferred asking Emperor William
for an audience until he had reached
the Belgo-Gcrman frontier was eager
ly seized as reason for denying him
such an audience. The semi-oiricial
Cologne Gazette puts the matter az
follows:
1.-THE question as to whether EN-
peror William would welcome Mr..
Kruger's visit must be answered with
out qualification in the negative. Tho
reason why such visit just now can
not be welcomed is plain. for Mr.. Kru-
ger intends the requested audience,
not only as n mere act of politcness,
but as an occasion for receiving proofs
of personal sympathy. Furthermore
he is prosecuting at the same timo
outspoken political AIMS, and desires
to induce the rulers of those states
which he visits to abandon the strict
neutrality they have hitherto found
reason to maintain in the war be-
tween Great Britain and the Trans
vaal. The maintenance of strict neu-
| trality, however, accords with Ger
many's interests, and it would be
serious political error if a mere sus.
picion was created that, at Mr.. Kru-
gers wish, this neutrality should be
no longer maintained"
Mr.. Kruger's reception AZ Cologne
was exceedingly enthusiastic as far as
the citizens were concerned. They had
planned a torchlight procession and
serenadcs, but the police forbade
/ them both.
His dispatches to Count Won Bue-
] low. the imperial chancellor, and 70
4 the heads of the German states, we're
left unanswered. There is no doubt
that as late as Saturday foreign office
officials contemplated that Mr.. kru
ger would be received i'm Berlin TO-
day. Emperor William and Count Won
/ Buelow must have reconsidercd the
original plan. 1t is suggested that
as Mr.. kruger's Invention 10 come 10
Berlin was mooted in France, The
, kaiser and his advisers may have sus
pected trap.
Herr Won Tschirsky. German minis
ter to Luxumberg, under Emperor
Williams instructions, personally
thanked Mr.. Kruger for the telegram
TO the kaiser. and Mr.. Kruger, when
thanking the envoy. said:
II invoke Gods blessing upon thai
august parsonage"
Diplomats generally regard Mr..
Kruger's mission as frustrated. and
consider Germany's action as OF great
political Importance, as denoting
new era in tho relations between Ger
many and Great Britain. On the 9TH
er hand the governments attitude -
certainly condemned by a lsrgc por-
ton Of the nation, and there can be
no question that a vast majority OF
the representative journals through
out the empire remain pro-kruger'
Sunday evering the court preacher,
DIR. Kritinger. in the new cathcdral,de-
livered discourse filed with senu-
ments strongly favoring the Beers