Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-06
|I|.E.[L| I|. |. |. DIT ]. ! T. ERENI STORY.
Germany Te]ls Different Story Of At At.
tempt to Intervene in Spanish.
American War.
Great Britain Said to Have Suggested
Note Declaring that. American
Course Was Wrong.
This After: Proposed Collective Mote
of the Powers Failed to Accom-
plish Object. !

acy Of the subjoined statement which
Germany's course towards the United
States during the war with Spain. The
correspondent of the Associated Press
understands that the article was pre-.
pared by Professor Schiemann, pro-
fessor of history at Berlin university,
who has special official sources of in
formation. After preface quoting
the statement made by a British for
&eign Office official to a repres entative
Of the Associated Press jan 81 last.
4 it says: +.
Almost exactly four years ago the
Spanish ambassador here asked Ger
many whether Germany would lead in
action against the United States for
the protection of the monarchic prin-
ciple. The answer was definite re-
fusal, and the same answer was given
a month later, or about the middle of
March, when the invitation reached
Germany to participate in the inter
vention undertaken upon the initiative
Of Austria. This was in the weeks fol-
lowing the sad catastrophe of the
Maine, when twas believed interven-
tion would facilitate an understand
ing between the United States and
Spain. Nevertheless our government
commissioned Herr Van Radowitz. the
{ German ambassador to Spain, to in
form the Madrid government that Ger
many was not,in a position, to prevent
the Spanish-Am erican war.
AFTER that several attempts we're
made to win Germany, sor the dreibund,
for intervention in whicn the pope was
especially active. The final result
was that DR.. Won Holleben German
ambassador at Washington) was in
structed to
Join in the Step. Proposed
by. Austria only in case all the other
five great powers participated.
s'sWe are unable to state the details
Of howFthe united action came about.
AT any rate the collective note was
handed to the officials at Washington
April z, advising peaceable settle
ment, and was signed by England,
France. Italy. Austria, Russia and
Germany. 1t was believed for a week
that war would be averted. General
Blanco received orders from Madrid
to offer the Cuban insurgents an arm
istice, for Spain was resolved to give
them farreaching autonomy and to ar
rive at a settlement of the Maine ques-
tion through arbitration. Diplomatic
circles however, entertained no il1u.
sions and when England, April IA,
through her ambassador, proposed a
new collective note in which the pow
ers should declare that Europe regard
ed Americas armed Intervention in
Cuba as unjustifable the other am.
bassadors telegraphed ito their home
governments asking for instructions.
The step failed through Germans pos
tive refusal. This gives, as it appears
to- us, a picture essentially different
from the English end A fortnight
later war was declared.
afterwards. in June and July, while
the United States was making good
progress in the Philippi les, England
tried to induce the Spanish commits
sion in England to ask for peace pro
posals, for to no power was the Amer
lean entertainments more annoyable
than to England. This is the history
of those events. We hope in giving
them we have exposed the absurdity Of
the English legend. "@
London, Feb. The Associated
Press has the highest Official author.
ity for denying the story printed by
The Krcuz Zeitung of Berlin, as to the
part taken by Lord Pauncefote tlls
British ambassador at Washington, in
the Spanish American war interYen-
ton in spite of the confirmation of the
story by the German foreign Office.
PREPARING I'll ElR REPORT.
Presbyterian Committee on Church
Revision in Session.