The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-22
FEELING STILL VERY BITTER
FRESH DEFENSE IN GERMANY AT
 sECRETARY CHAMBERLAIN.

His Open Letter Asgravatcs the sltua. | tIon-The semt-OMcai North German 1 Gazette Denounces tho British Min
 fster but Depr coates Official Notice
 Being Characterization Now Con- l sidcrod Serious tn England.
 | Berlin, Nov 21-Fresh offense against
 Mir. Chamberlain, the British colonial
 secretary, has been taken in Germany
 over an open letter reproduced here, in
 which he alludes to the so-called agita- 1 tion in Germany, 'so evidently artificial
 and entirely based on misapprehension
 of my speech" and says that he does
 not propose to notice it. and that mo
 sensible German could be affronted by
 my words justifying British action in the Transvaal.' The North German | Gazette, semi official, hitherto silent on
 the subject denounces MT Chamber lain's original utterances at Edinburg as offensive and inconsiderate, but con- the letter. The papers exhorts the army not to be affected or persuaded precates official notice being taken of the irrational utterances of foreign minister.
 London, Nov 22.-The fact that the anti Chamberlain agitation in Germany has at last extracted a semi-official ex- pression of approval from the North German Gazette has had the effect of convincing the British press that the situation is becoming serious. Hereto fore there had been a disposition to disregard and belittle the influence of the agitation. Now the papers are talk ing trouble to explain that MT. Cham berlain's words were not intended to insult or offend Germany
 "The temper of the German public is dangerous said the Morning Post and it behooves our people to be on their guard, The Germans appear to regard Great Britain as covetous, rapa- cious and barbarous. From that belief to the corollary that barbarous nation ought to be suppressed is a short and easy step"
 The Daily News remarks: MT. Chamberlain, as the French say, costs dear The new imperialism which was to strengthen our position in the world has left us without a friend America cannot supply what we have lost in Europe. for the German, Dutch and Irish elements in that great communi- ty are to-day more hostile than they were during the Venezuelan trouble"
 The Daily Chronicle, which admits that the agitation is "the outcome of misrepresentation of MT. Chamberlatn's ill-judged and ill-timed remarks" says: This does not diminish the gravity of the situation. It is serious thought that Lord Salisbury's self -congra tula- tion at the Guildhall at the correct at- titude of the great powers is beginning to be falsified."
 Referring then to the "scurrillous at- tacks made by the German press, the Daily Chronicle concludes as follows: Unless the authorities restrain the un- licensed abuse of England in the Ger man press, we fail to see how this coun- try can much longer ignore these accu- insults"
 The Standard and the Daily Te1e- graph are much less alarmist in tone, | but they recognize that such agita- tions, even when artificial, are not al- | ways harmless. and 1t is a good thing | that the relations between the two gov- are so friendly and that | Queen Victoria's blood runs in the kas- CTS veins"
 All the papers publish long specials | from Berlin describing the public feel ing and agreeing that the article in the North German Gazette is a proof that the German government is altogether powerless to stem the agitation which Is intended, if possible, to force Count von Buelow into some anti-British pro- 
 The Times, defending MT. Chamber ain against German attacks, says: We must beg to remind the Germans that we claim an equal right to guard ,ur own honor and to resent accusa- lions founded upon the most hateful and poisonous calumnies, disseminated with a deliberate persistence inexplica- ole in friendly community.
 We hope the German people and government will understand that the British nation will not acquesce in any of the honor of our gall ant soldiers, which is as dear to us as hat of the German army to the Ger nan nation"
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