The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-04-28
GERMANY SAYS HER
CLAIMS ARE JUST
Reports of Extravagant De-
mands on China Untrue.
AMERICAN PRESS WRONG
COMPLAINS OF INJUSTICE DONE
By PAPERS IN U. 5.

Berlin, April 27.-Cable dispatches
from America, especially those re-
printed in American, imputing to Ger
many Shylock tendencies, as insisting
on the pound of flesh in China and also.
representing Germanys indemnity as
higher than the facts warrant. have
created here, both ohfciany and pri-
y,ately, disagreeable surprise Official-
ly, it was pointed out to the correspon-
dent of the Associated Press that the
figures all along quoted in the Ameri-
can press are wrong The correct in
denlnity figures are those .eablsd to the
Associated Press April l3, showing Rus
ssa's demands to be $50, 000.009 marks,
France $50, 600 marks, Germany 24O.-
ooo, 000 marks, the United states, 1907
000.000, etc.
Germany's official figures presented to
the reicbstag show that Germany has
already spent more than she asks. The
above figures certainly do not include
the private claims put forth by the
yarieus powers, How large those viii
be nobody yet knows, because they are
uncollected and unpresented Papers
here question whether theerUnlted
states spent 100.0G0.O00 marks They
also point out siTat the transport of
the German troops such long distance
vas expensive, refer to the murder of
DdIVn Won hcLlCfcT ana say that Ef2e
fact that Count Won NYalderSee was APP
pointed conmander-in- chief OF the al
lied forces rendered it necessary for
Germany TO send proportionate contin-
gents. The view prevails here that
the American EreprOa ehes and intfn1a-
lions against Germany are unjust. Of
'hcial sources here say thaey are unable
TO account Tor the systematic- i'll Will in
che matter shown blythe United States
press"
While it is true that everybody here
is tired of the China business the news
papers point out that Germany cannot
withdraw her troops until the Chinese
court has given evidence by more than
words of its readiness to fulfin the con-
ditions of peace imposed, by the concert
OF the powers The Colonge Volks
zeitung says:
Boxers Will Break Loose Again
Judging from the latest news it is
against missionaries and Europeans
will Immediately break looseeon the re-
tirement of che allies
The correspondent of the Associated
Press learns positively that the nego-
lationS for the renewal and ruodifina-
tons OF the dreibund. which expires IN
May, 1903, viii be conducted during the
first half of 1901 and. tn Whole Of 1902.
Fhe emperor enjoyed his trip to Bonn
immensely He visited and conversed
EthS0-SfSi4NtS VIII al MS OLD Bonn 2c-
qua1ntances of his students days and
distributed many triAing gifts and
mementoes among them
The emperor used his stay in Bonn
to inform himself thoroughly regard
ms the Dusseldorf exposition of 1902,
tor the Rheneich mining, iron and en-
gineer Industry were insufficiently
shown at the Paris exposition because
OF lack of space. Emperor William is
going Wooacock shooting at Wartburg.
and the empress viii go in few days
10 the Chateau Believille. where the
younger of her children are STAYING.
Later she intends to go with the chill /
dren to Baden.
The Dowager Empress Frederick has
sent the Countess Won Perponcher to
t5rieshelnl to express sympathy with
the families OF the Victims OF the ex-
pi9s-ons there and distribute kits. The
health OF the dowagef empress lust
now is fairly good
The Nossische zeitung, commenting
on the socialist May L proclamation
points out that revolutionary appeals
are missing from it and claims rhat-tbe
torE1er reNclUtionists have become CO..
workers tor the benefit OF the state
although the emperor and f,o4nt
Won Buelow strongly favor the German
East Africa railroad, there seems III tie
chance that the bill win pass. certain
~ not in its present shape. r--
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