The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-04
KAISER'S ACTION HAS
CAUSED A STIR.
Refusal to Meet Mr.. kruger REGARD
ed ny Most Important Pc-
iitieat Move,

BERLIN Dec s-The governments
curt and decisive intimation that Emperor
William would not be able to receive Mr..
Kruger has created a profound impression
throughout Germany. what may be call
ed the anti British section OF the press
does not conceal its annoyance, and tho
moderate Anglophohe organs with diffi-
Guilty suppress utterances Of disappoint-
ment.
The inspired Journals say that It was
Germany's desire to intimate definitely
that MIR KruEers visit would not be well
come, aud therefore the fact that he omit
ted to comply with the strict etiquette OF
the German court and deferred asking
Emperor William for an audience until
he had reached the o-German fron-
tier was eagerly seized as "A reason for
denying him such an audience. The semi
official Cologne Gazette puts the matter
as follows.
NThe question as 20 whether Emper r
William would welcome Mr. krnget )
visit must be answered without guam
tication IN the negative. The reason why
such VISIT lust now cannot he welcomed
Is plain for Mr. Kruger intends the re-
uuested audience not only as mere
act OF politeness. bur an occasion Tor
receiving proofs Of personal sympathy.
Furthermore. he is prosecuting AT tine
same time outspokeu political aims and
desires TO induce the rulers ~ those
states which he visits TO abandon tNe
reason 10 maintain In the war between
Great Britain and the Transvaal. The
maintenance of strict neutrality however,
nccords with Germany's interests. and II
would be a serious political error " a
mere suspicion was created that. at air.
Kruger's wish. this neutrality should be
no longer maintained
Nr. kruger mt Cologne.
MIR. Kruger's reception AZ Cologne was
exceedingly enthusiastic, as ear as the
citizens were concerned They had
planned n torchlight procession and sere-
nades but the police forbade them both
His dispatch to Count Won iiuelow, the
Imperial chancellor. and 60 the heads OF
the German states was left unanswered.
There Is no doubt that as late as Satur-
day foreign office officials CONTEMPLATED
that Mr. Kruger would he received N
Berlin tomorrow. Emperor William and
Count Won Ruelow must have rcconsidered
the original plan. II Is suggested thal
as MIR Kruser's intention to come 20
Berlin was mootcd IN France. the kaiser
and his advisers may have suspected a
trap.
Herr van Tschirshky German minister
at Luxembourg. under Emperor Wit
iam's instructions, personally thanked Mr
Kruger for the telegram TO the kaiser
and MIR lSruger, when thanking TIE en-
voy. saida#sss - srs sssE .s~s - O.
~ invoke Gods blessing upon that aug
ust parsonage"
Diplomats generally regard Mr.. nrug-
er's mission is frustrated, and Il is
rumored Ciermanys action IS of great
political Importance, as denoting a new
era in the relations between Germany
and Great Britain
on the other hand, the governments
attitude is certainly condemned by a
large portion of the nation. and there
can he no question that vast majority
of the representative Journals through
out the empire remain pro-kruger Yes
terday even the court preacher Dr. krit-
lnger. in the new cathedral, delivered a
discourse Tilted with sentiments strongly
faVoring the Bocr cause.