New-York tribune., 1901-12-31
NEGOTIATIONS CONTINUE.
AMBASSADOR WHITE ALLAYS ANXIETY
AROUSED BY SENSATIONAL
REPORTS.

Berlin. Dec 30.-An official note, published this
evening, says the negotiations between Germany
and Venezuela continue and that the German
representative is still at Caracas.
The German Foreign Office authorizes The
Associated Press to announce that there is
truth whatever in the dispatches from Caracas
saying the German Minister has left the VeneZ-
uelan capital after heated exchange of words
with President Castro. The German Charge
d'Affaires Herr Won Pilgrim Baltazzi. is still at
his post, and is continuing negotiations with
President Castro. There has not been any ques-
tion of breaking off diplomatic relations with
Venezuela.
The German Minister to Venezuela, DR.. O.
Schmidt-Leda. who has been on a vacation here.
is now his way to Caracas.
GERMANY RENEws ASSURANCES.
The Foreign Office again soIemnly reiterates
the statement that 1t does not contemplate ter
ritorial acquisitions in Venezuela.
Replying TO Germany's assurances to the
United States regarding the formers plans in
connection with Venezuela, the Foreign Office
here has received an answer from Secretary
Hay. expressing full satisfaction with Ger
many's position. Germany still hopes to collect
her claims peaceabIy
The 'TagebIatt" this evening prints double
forth that the principal military and naval au-
thorities there consider that war between the
United States and Germany sooner or later is
inevitable
The United States Ambassador Andrew D.
White, to-day informed the German newspaper
men who called at the Embassy that the reports
OF -tfs- pos-.h.isty OF. between the United
States and Germany were the ''thinnest kind of
sensational nonsense" Not one Of the authori-
ties referred 10 he "a
added, would under any circumstances disclose
such an opinion, least of all when the relations
between the two countries are so good as at
present.
Moreover" said Mr.. White, president
Roosevelt, the Comma nder-in- Chief Of both the
army and the navy, it is well known, entertains
not only official but personal predictions for
Germany. which have been made known not
only officially to the German Government but
which have long been known among his friends
He studied in Germany, reads and loves Ger
man literature and has most sincere personal
respect for the German Emperor. Any utterance
Of the kind alleged by an officer of either
vice would be sternIy rebuked by President
Roosevelt"
wARsHIPs ORDERED FROM KEEL.
The small German cruiser GazelIe was to-day
ordered to sail Immediately from Kiel to Ven
ezuelan waters.
The government intends to send one or two
other small warships TO reinforce the present
German squadron in the Caribbean Sea, The ad-
ditions to Germany's naval force in the Carib-
bean will not be sufficient to give rise to suspt-
cions among the people of the United States that
Germany meditates anything beyond the collec-
ton OF claims due her subjects. The German
Government desires, beyond anything else in this
matter. to avoid disturbing the government or
the people Of the United States. German news
papers published to-day full of expressions
of this kind and many of these expressions are
much alike that it is easy to infer their utter
suggested by the government.
markable thing is the fact that there is not
single unkind expression toward the United
States in any Of this newspaper comment. Even
the dispatch from Washington to A New-Iork
newspaper, printed yesterday, to the effect that
persons Of importance in the War and Navy de-
partnents consider between Germany and
The United States to be inevitable, which has
peen reproduced everywhere throughout Ger
many, is discussed coolly. and for the most
part, treated with incredulity.