The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1901-11-12
CONSIDER IT
AN INSULT
cHAM1ERLAIN's SPEECH RIFLES
GERMAN Students.
VETERANS ALSO INDIGNANT
Many Meetings Held and Anti-British
Oratory and Resolutions
INDUCED In.
VETERANS ALSO INDIGNANT

with anti-Chamberlain indignation
meetings all the week. These meet
ings have beer confined hitherto to
students and veterans societies, but
a conference of the Thuringian pas
tors societies has decided to invite
the protestant clergymen throughout
Germany to make a common protest
against the utterances of the British
colonial secretary at Edinburgh, Oct.
25, when he referred to the conduct of
the German troops during the Franco
Prussian war of 1901.
Students meetings were held during
the week at the Berlin, Leipseig, To
bingen, Jena and other universities.
The Leipseig meeting was held in re-
Spouse to a call sent out by the rector
of the university. The Jena students
voted to petition the imperial chan
cellor, Count o Buelow, to instruct
the German ambassador at London to
demand satisfaction for the insult.
The students of Breslau university
have issued a call, couched in highly
indignant terms, for a meeting to take
place November ~. At all the meet
ings the speakers used violent Ian
guage, and all the published calls are
holly worded.
The Leipseig Veterans league has
declined to issue a call for a meeting,
taking the ground that it is useless
to become excited over Mr.. Chamber
lain, "since he is known to be the COM
monest kind of a liar"
The newspapers are beginning to
warn the people from different stand
points, however, that the matter is
being %overdone, some OF them claim
ing that Mr.. Chamberlain is too far
beneath German contempt for any
thing which he may say to be ooked
upon as an insult to the soldiers OF
Germany.
Others say that the excitement will
result in the straining of the relations
between Germany and Great Britain.
The Vorwaerts considers the pro-
test movement to be ridiculous and
says the intensity Of the language
used is comical.
The Vossische Zeitung regrets that
many of the speeches delivered con-
tanned violent attacks upon Great Brl-
tain, and refers to the dangers OF a
resurrection of the eastern question,
when they will have a ten
dency to draw Great Brl-
tain, Russia and France together, and
the consequent necessity of Italy cast
ing her fortunes with Great Britain
and France, thus leaving Germany in
a state of splendid isolation" The
paper asks if it is prudent in such
circumstances, to follow a course cal
culated to prove that the German PEG
pie are imbued with the most pro-
found hatred of Great Britain, and
calling attention to the fact that Mr.
. ~Chamberlain's obnoxious remark in
cluded the troops Of France, Russia
and other nations, adds that the
French and Russians shrug thei1
shoulders, regarding Mr.. Chamberlain
as a babbler, and says they do moi
think of c%rusading against Great Brl
= tain with the grand orations, as the
arch enemy of the policy Of great EN-
pires. Such a crusade, according tt
- the Vossosche Zeitung, cannot be con
: Quoted merely with warm hearts, COO
heads being needed, adding that Il
= is not necessary for Germans to stud
6 iously nourish anti-C chamberlain feel
! ings against Great Britain, and it i
a mis- take to defend ourselves by ex
N aggerated demonstrations"
The public mind was considerable
excited this week on account of tn
duel at Insterburg, east Prussia. il
which Lieutenant Blaskowitz of tn
army was killed by Lieutenant Hide
brand, also of the army. The militar,
is officials have not yet made a state
a.. ment of the facts in the case, but tn
National Zeitung has obtained an al
a. lucrative account of the meeting
Is which is as follows:
L~ieutenants Hildebrand and Ras
lg mussen met Lieutenant BlaskoWitz q
ing home n night in a state OF IL
t%oxication, carried him to a spot nea
NJ his residence and left him there. The
returned to the spot later, howeve
10 and found Blaskowitz crouchin
% against a wall, asleep and tried t
DO arouse him and get him upon his fee
DO Blaskowitz, being ignorant Of th
DO identity Of the two men who were 81