The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-01-11
ATTACK ON GREAT BRITAIN
HER ARMY 44SSAILED AS 4MOR OF
 IHIEYES.

Wicked Man on th-Chan oeI l or
 Won BueIow Pours oil on the Trou bl ed
 Waters and Defends the British Colo
 niaI Secretary.
 ssBerlin, Jan. 10.-During the debate on 2 thea estimates in the Reichstag to-day
 Herr Bassermann declared that the
 Nati0hale Liberal party would totally . oppose any suggestion of lean of 35,-
 100000 to cover the deficit Financial
 reform was pecessary, and tie National
 Liberals were5not .averse to direct inn.
 perial taxation. M
 During the course of the debate I "
 ences were made to Mr. Chamberlains
 remark concerning the German army,
 when the British colonial secretary de-
 livered his famous speech at Edin-
 burgh. Herr Sonnenberg, Radical an
 ti-Semite, made long and violent
 speech and indulged in the most bitter
 invective against MT. Chamberlain and
 the British army ever heard in the
 Rechstag. He characterized MT.
 SHdnQUeTldlH as lne nlOSI w lCheu
 on Gods earth. This expression called forth stern rebuke from the president
 of the houses But Herr Sonnenberg,
 unabashed, assailed the British army,
 chasing it as a mob of thieves and
 robbers, unfit to be compared with the glorious Germans. The speakers re-
 marks called forth further censure from the president.
 The chancellor, Count Won Buelow, making q general reply to preceding speakers, took occasion to pour oil on the recently troubled British waters. He spoke sharply against the abuse ol MT. Chamberlain, the colonial secre- 1ary indulged in by several speakers since the opening of the debate, as well as the aspersions cast on the honor of the British army, to which the chancel- Tor paid warm tribute.
 The chancellor said: T believe I | shall be in sympathy with very great | majority of the house when I express the hope that the custom of abusing foreign ministers from the tribune of 1 this august house will not become nat uIaIized among us. That would accord neither with the usages of the German people nor the interests of our policy. (Cheers) I must at the same time ex- press my deep regret at the way in which the last speaker (Herr Lieber mann) referred to the army of a nation with which we live in peace and friend ship. As we ourselves are sensitive concerning the honor of our own army, so we should not abouse foreign ar mics, in which there are brave men enough who know how to die" (Bra- Nos).
 Count Won Buelow strongly depre- cated the contention of Herr Basser- mann that the official press ought to have given the lead to public opinion in dealing with MT. Chamberlain's speech.
 "Our press and public opinions" said the chancellor. "would stand in very low repute, if in questions of national honor they stood in need of a word of command from above. I protest against the idea that the repudiation of an as- persion on the army should have any effect in changing their policy. If this repudiation is to be an excuse for fore ing upon us a different attitude in re- gard to the war in South Africa or a pretext for bringing about unfriendly IeldClOnS DeCWeG1l our peUple anu q peO- { pie towards whom we have never stood in hostility and to whom we are bound by weighty interests 1 wish to leave it beyond doubt that I will have nothing to do with anything of the kind We ; cannot let the direction of our foreign , policy be prescribed for us by speeches, , resolutions or popular meetings. That , policy can only be determined by the . real and permanent interests of the , country and that interest requires us, while fully safeguarding our independ ence, dignity and honor, to cultivate peaceful and friendly relations with \ Great Britain
 The chancellor expressed his approval of the recent speech made by Prince won Wolff -Metternich, the German ( ambassador to Great Britain, at Ham, s burg advocating more cordial relations a with Great Britain, and concluded with t his regret that the mainte- I nance of friendly relations with Great c Britain had not been rendered easier | by the Chamberlain incident and | hoped that in the future they would be C spared such episodes, which did not ,onduce to the preservation of peace in the world.
 Count Von Buelow also expressed re- yret for some sighting remarks made oy Herr Liebmann concerning the in- r. affairs of Austria.