The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1901-11-28
GETTING SERIOUS
BRITISH OBJECT TO GERMAN At
TACkS ON CHAMBERLAIN.
London Newspapers Say That TIE Honor Of
Their Country win Be Protected 1t
Whatever Cost-Tsmper Of the German
Public Now Regarded - Danssrous-
Some Of the Press Utterances.

London, Nov. 22.-The fact that the
anti Chamberlain agitation in Germany
has at last extracted semi-oficial ex
preston 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 has been disposition to dis
regard and belittle the influence of the
agitation. Now the papers are taking
the trouble to explain that Mr.. Cham.
berlain's words were not intended tc
insult or offend Germany.
"The temper of the German public il
dangerous" says 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 short and
easy STEP"
The Daily News remarks:
"Mr. Chamberlain, as the French say,
costs dear The newimperialism which
was to strengthen our position in the
world has left US without friend.
America cannot supply what we have
lost in Europe, for the German, Dutch
and Irish elements in that great com.
munity are today more hostile than they
were during the Venezuelan trouble"
The Daily Chronicle, which admits
that the agitation is "the outcome of
misrepresentation of Mr.. Chamberlain
ill-judged and ill-timed remarks" saws:
"This does not diminish the gravity of
the situation. It is a serious thought
that Lord Sallsbury's self-congratulation
at the Guild Hall at the correct attitude
of the great powers is beginning to be
falsifed."
Crisis at Hand.
Referring then to the ''scurrilous
attacks made by the German press" the
Daily Chronicle concludes as follows:
"Unless the authorities restrain the
unlicensed abuse of England in the Ger
man press we fail to see how this coun-
try can much longer ignore these
accumulated insults"
The Standard and the Daily Telegraph
are much less alarmist in tone, but they
recognize that ''such agitations, even
when artificial, are not always harmless,
and it is good thing that the relations
between the two governments are so
friendly and that Queen Victoria's blood
runs in the kaiser's veins"
All the papers publish long specials
from Berlin describing the public feeling
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 Won
Buelow into some anti-British pro-
nouncement.
The Times, defending Mr.. Chamber
lain against German attacks, says:
eve must beg to remind the Germans
that we claim an equal right to guard
our own honor and to resent accusations
founded upon the most hateful and
poisonous calumnies disseminated with
deliberate persistence inexplicable in
friendly community.
"We hope the German people and
government will understand that the
British nation will not acquisce in any
impeachment of the honor of our gallant
soldiers, which is as dear to us as is that
of the German army to the German
nation"