The age-herald., 1901-11-24
GERMAN ANGER
 IS STILL AROUSED
Anti Chamberlain Meetings
 Continue Despite Warnings
DISCUSSING HAYS ADDRESS
Lieutenant HlIdebrand, Who Killed
 Lieutenant BIsskowitz In a Duel, V Is Sentenced to Two Years is- Imprisonment.


 tinues to ring with protests against the reference which MT. Chamberlain, the British colonial secretary. made to the Germ an army in his speech at Edn- burgh. Meetings are being held every day, and there is no sign of abatement of the agitation.
 The Pastors Society of Gladbach Is circulating protest which has already received the signatures of 6SO pastors. The Wurtemberg Veterans Society has issued warnings against attaching too great importance to one mans utter ance. The letter from MT Chamberlains secretary is pronounced here to be quite unsatisfactory, for as the papers note, MT. Chamberlain takes nothing back. The press regards the letter as another insult and rejects assumption that the anti-British movement Is artificial On this latter. point the Cologne Volks Zeitung asserts that the movement is as spontaneous as 1t is possible to imagine, adding that the government has tried by every means to suppress it. but has failed in the effort.
 Other papers describe the movement as being the most rem arkable of its kind ever witnessed. The labor organs like the Tageblatt and the Vossische Zeitung, try to prove that the movement is dt- rected exclusively against MT. Chamber lain and not against Great Britain. but the Franhfurter Zeitung admits that German patriotic feeling has been in- famed in an unmistakable manner against Great Britain. The paper as- serts that 1t was understandable on the part of MT. Chamberlain to give fresh fuel to this feeling, and says MT. Cham berlain was not wise in reasserting his error.
 Cause Is In Germany.
 Nevertheless the Frankfurter Zeitung admits that part of the cause of this friction Is to be found on German soil. It says the movement here expresses the German want of confidence in the man agem ent of Germany's foreign policy, which is looked upon as being lacking in steadiness and power and as acting by fits and starts.
 Secretary Hays address at the New York Chamber of Commerce Tuesday last has raised a lively discussion of German American relations. The Kreuz Zeitung sees therein proof that Washington does not intend to be liberal in drawing up commercial treaties with the European states and that 1t Is not willing to con cede the same duties as other contract ing states. The Kreuz Zeitung adds that since Secretary Hay holds fast to the -ngley tariff other countries can only answer with the imposition of similar duties.
 The assurances given by Dr. von Hol- leben, the German ambassador at Wash ington. to President Roosevelt regarding the attitude of Emperor William and the Carv .1< ke,x have been warmly received here.
 Hope for Better Relations.
 All the papers express the hope that there will be an improvement in the re- lations between Germany and the United States through this clearing of the at- mosphere.
 The Berliner Zeitung calls Dr. von Hol- leben's assurances a disavowal of the Pan Germans. The paper admits that the Pan-Germans advocated foreign con quests in manner which necessarily caused vexation abroad. It shows from | the Pan-German Associations printed matter that the Pan-Germans wanted to annex Chilli, Argentina, South Brazil, the | West Indians, the Netherlands, Turkey. etc. and goes on to show that the Ger man fleet society, which enjoys high l government protection, follows similar ideas. It quotes the following from re- cent article in the society's organ: Upon whether we succeed in winning back to Germanism at least part of the German emigrants, particularly those in South America and possibly in Queens land and South Africa, depends chiefly on the degree we expand as a power dur ing the coming century,"
 The Berlner Zeitung asks:
 What does this mean but that when our navy Is strong enough we shall begin wars of conquest in all lands where the 1 German element is numerous?" l Continuing, the article quoted says 1t can readily be understood that such ex- society awakened distrust abroad, and this distrust Is all the more justified since in foreign countries. under the eyes of German ministers and consuls, an agi- tation has been begun. aiming to repre- sent the Germans there as being op- pressed and as needing help from home Two Years Imprisonment. 1 The sentence of two years imprison- ment imposed by a court-martial on Lieutenant Hildebrand, who killed Lieu tenant Blaskowitz in a duel at Inter- burg, East Prussia. meets with sharp criticism and Is regarded as inadequate. Fault Is also found with the fact that the trial was held behind closed doors and that the correspondents who were present were forbidden to report any thing about the meeting which brought about the duel. It Is not disputed. how ever that the insult was given while | RIaskowitz was greatly intoxicated