The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-03-03
ACCORDING TO THE VIEW TAKEN BY
THE NATIONAL ZEITUNG.
Germany's Chinese Policy enOunced
by the v~oryyacrts rs an I'm
broken Chain of

bcnS nelu pubic attention this week.
A considerable portion of the German
press strongly disapproves Of Germany's
protesting against the Russian annexation
OF M~anchuria, claiming that Germany has
no interests there and that she is pledged
to Russia not to interfere with anything
Russia chooses TO do there. The lingo and
Agrarian papers are particularly %outspoken
In this respect. The Deutsche Tages
Zeitung to-day says that Count Won Bue-
lows proceeding on the subject is illogical
and stupid and amounting to hauling chest
nuts out of the fire for Great Britain. The
more sober portion of the press deplores
this new trouble, which creates diplomatic
antagonisms likely to split the whole en-
tente of the powers. The National Zeitung
believes this newest phase of the China
situation to be the most dangerous for the
peace of the world that has come about
since the beginning of the Chinese trouble.
The Vorwaerts reviews Germany's Chi
nese policy since the Carbohydrates war
and declares it TO be one unbroken chain
of plumbers. The paper adds: "If the tri-
umvirate of Great Britain. Germany anl
Japan had stood together from the first
II would have been able to check Russia's
land-grabbing insolence, but now It is too
late; Russia has what she wanted and is
sure of China's ratification. Protests from
the other powers are now useless"
Agitation over the new tariff and the
new commercial treaties is as lively as
ever; the Agrarian demands, after grow
Ing with the apparent indifference to Count
Won Buelow and the Bundesrath. seem now
to have become more modest, since the
Russian papers. at the instigation
Of De ANiIfn mIntafar nj fl
nance, came out with the series OF ar
ticles against G~ermany's proposed large
Increase OF agricultural duties and threat
ening severe reprisals against the impOrta-
tion of German Industrial products. Some
of the most important German papers have
this week printed st. Petersburg corre-
Industry. In spite OF it's elaborate pam
pering by Minister De Witte, Is now plain
~ shown TO be n total failure, Russia is
all the more constrained TO retain those
countries TO which she can export her
agricultural products. hence Nj. DE Whites
fierce attack upon Count Won Buelow.
one inspired Russian article printed this
week wherein II Is plainly set forth that II
Germany persists In shutting out Russian
produce Russia Will retaliate, not only
economically. but also politically. has been
generally commented upon here.
A public address this week by Or. Won
Siemena. A member OF the Rcichstag and
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created a sensation. Or. Won Sicmcns
said that if the new treaties are not con-
stituted Germany VIII enter upon a period
OF unparalleled distress. that emigration
OF from seven TO ten millions must bc ex-
pcctcd and that Germany would sink back
into the shadows OF provincial existence.
XXX
Anglo-German relations ara slowly lat
proving. A number OF the more serious
newspapers confess the folly OF repclling
Great Britain's advances. The authorized
news that the alleged disfguring OF the
Emperor's picture by his British regiment
(the First Royal Dragoons) In January, 1896,
Is n myth. has done It's share 10 allay Ger
man rancor against the Britons. Sensible
articles by the influential Grenzboten Ga
weekly newspaper, the Nossischc Zeitung,
the Cologne Volks Zeitung, the kreuz Zei-
tung and the Berlin Tageblatt have also
done their share.
The largest portion OF this weeks Reich
stag sitting was taken up by a debate on
dueling. In which the Centrist orators were
especially forcible In their They
did not even hesitate to attack the En-
perOr for encouraging ducling by regularly
rardonlng duelists after short and mild con-
inement The Norwaerts to-day publishes
another list of such recent pardons. General
Won Gossler, the war minister, weakly and
unskillfully defended ducling as a Gus
tom. but was not able 10 ~disprove the
powerful arraignment of facts and reasons
by the Centrists.
The resolution OF the budget committee
OF the Reichstag I'm favor OF the establish
mentof a governmental armor plate works
was made after :hc committees inquiry of
Admiral Won Tierpitz. secretary of the Ad-
miralty. had shown that the empire might
nave TO pay G4.b00, 900 marks more than a
reasonable profit 10 the German manufac-
turers on the armored vessels building to-
day under the present naval Increase law.
XXX
a circular of inquiry issued by n news
paper called the Arbeitsmarkt shows that
there are over $4,000 metal workers In the
Rhineland who are without employment or
working on half time.
Xxx
The Reichstag has received statistics
showing that. since the establishment In
1896 of the conditional pardon OF sentences,
32,47i of such pardons were granted. of
which over 10 per cent. were without re-
lapse.
The Emperor will reach Wilhelmshaven
on Monday 10 administer the oath TO the
marine recruits.
Prof. Won Bergman has been summoned
to st. Petersburg TO perform a difficult op-
Grafton upon the Russian minister of pub
lie instruction, Nj. BogoliepOff, who was re-
Gently shot by an assassin.
XXX
The unauthentic news published in the
German papers 10 the effect that unitel
States Ambassador White will retire has
brought forth strong disapproval from the
American residents IN different portions of
Germany. Petitions are spoken of asking
President Mckinley TO retain Mr.. White.
Xxx
IL is related by Americans who have re-
Gently returned here from St. Petersburg
that in high circles of the Russian capital
1t is said that Russia will approach the
discussion OF the tariff difficulty in the
triendliest spirit toward the United States,
and the belief that the matter may be
amicably settled is emphasized In St.
Petersburg. American exports TO Russia
are much heavier than United States sta
tistics show, as heavy shipments come TO
Russia by way OF England and Germany.
A large German dealer and importer of
dental instruments showed the representa-
tive OF the Associated Press a letter from
his st. Petersburg agent instructing him to
accompany the shipments of non-American
goods with a certificate of their origin In
order to avoid the payment Of extra duty.