Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-01-16
THE BRITISH STIRRED Up.
Chancellor Won Buelow's Rebuke to
Mr.. Chamberlain In the
German Reichstag.
IT has SET BRITISH FUR ALL ON END,
The Press Denounces 1t as Offensive
and PbarisaicaI, and Declares
xhat Germany IL Throwing Away
Something h a Need Ere
Long.

London, Jan. 10.-The singing re-
buke administered to Mr.. Chamber
lain, tie British colonial secretary;
by Cha hcellor Won Buelow, in the
reiehstag, at Berlin, for the refer
ences IN Chamberlain's speech at
Edinbl rgh, October 25 last, to the con-
duct If the German army in h war
with France, 1901, has caused in
tenan and widespread irritation here
AND has markedly increased the bit
terress of the Anglo-German discord.
The St. James Gazette, which calls
Count Won Buelow a "swaggering
Pharaisee," says:
His offensive speech has brought
the growing irritation between the
two countries into a dangerous
sphere, and the kaiser's telegram OF
six years ago was not more dis
astrous to mutual good relations
than the studied affront on a British
statesman who is trusted by the
country and through him on h
country itself. Our attitude of easy
tolerance is nc longer compatible
with our digniay as a nation. Even II
Won Buelow had been the head of a
republican ministry dependent for it's
life on tickle popular opinion there
would have been little excuse for his
gross perversion of facts and breach
Of international comfy"
THE st. james Gazette concludes
with the expression of belief that the
Pkarisaical im%pertinence of the Ger
man press is profoundly d~istasteful
to the kaiser, who is m~anfully striv-
ing to stem the torrent which is
bearing his empire towards the Mia
gara of disaster" and warns Ger
many that both eastward and west
ward of her there is a which
holds her armed to the teeth in
sleepless vigilance, and when the ex-
pected catastrophe in southeastern
Europe leaves her alone between the
upper and neither milestone she may
bitterly regret the loss of the good
will of this country which she is now
finging away with both hands"
won Buelow's words can not Fail
to be held throughout Europe as a
snub to Great Britain" says the Pail
Mall Gazette, in an editorial headed
THE Retort Discourteous." The edi-
torial expresses regret that the chan
%cellor, sin his anxiety not to be sus-
pected of being a friend of England,
has chosen to stimulate rather than
soothe the anti-British spirit"
The Globe accuses Won Buelow OF
deliberately pandering to the low.
est and most ill-informed elements
of public opinion in Germany" add.
ing:
st is inconceivable that the chan
cellor spoke thus without the APP
proval of the kaiser"
The Globe then lectures Emperor
William for mot checking the stream
of foul lies and obscene caricatures in
the German press" Referring to the
Forthcoming visit of the prince of
Wales to Germany, it says: at is a
poor beginning of hospitality on the
kaiser's part to allow his chancellor
TO indulge in language Intentionally
offensive to the whole British EN-.
pire."
The Westminster Gazette alone dep
recates the regarding of Count Won
Buelow's speech as a cause for fur
q Their disturbing the relations between
Great Britain and Germany.
Such comments as those quoted
above, it is thought. may further in
flame the public, already angered
having the snub administered by EN-
peror William a few days ago in the
North German Gazette. This paper
is the chief mouthpiece of the govern.
ment, and in it a note appeared say.
ing that the statement in the English
press that the German emperor had
pressed the prince of Wales to attend
his birthday celebration was untrue
n explaining that King Edward had
suggested the visit and that EN-
peror William had sent the invitation