The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-09
ENGLAND RILED.
Count Won BueIow's Remarks
About Joe Chamberlain
Call Forth Strong Expressions
of Resentment.

London, Jan. 9.-The singing rebuke
administered to Mr.. Chamberlain, the
British colonial secretary by Chancellor
Won Buelow. in the reichstag at Berlin
yesterday for the references IN Mr..
Chamber1ain's speech at Edinburgh,
October % last, to the conduct of the
German army in the war with France,
1S1O-71. has caused intense and wide
spread irritation here and has markedly
increased the bitterness of the Anglo
German discord. The St. James Ga
zette, which calls Count Won Buelow
staggering pharisee" says:
His offensive speech has brought the
growing irritation between the two
countries into a dangerous sphere, and
the kaiSer'S programme of six years ago
was not more disastrous to mutual good
relations than the studied affront on
British statesman who is trusted by the
country, and through him, on the coun-
try itself Our attitude of easy toler-
ance is no longer compatible with our
dignity nation. Even If Won Bue-
low had been the head of a republican
ministry dependent for its life on tickle
popular opinion, there would have been
little excuse for his gross perversion of
facts and breach of international COM
ity."
The ST James Gazette concludes with
the expression of belief that the phari-
sSaical impertinence of the German press
is profoundly diStaSteful to the kaiser,
who is manfully striving to stem the
torrent which is bearing his empire
towards the Niagara of disaster" and
warns Germany that both eastward
and westward of her, there is a menace
which holds her armed to the teeth in
sleepless vigilance and when the ex-
pected catastrophe in southeastern Eur
ope 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 hinging
away with both hands"
won Buelow's words cannot fail to
be hailed throughout Europe as a snub
to Great Britain says the Pail Mall
Gazette in an editorial headed The
retort discourteous." The editorial ex-
presses regret that the chancellor in
his anxiety not to be suspected 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 lowest
and most in-infOrmed elements of pub
lie opinion in Germany adding: 1T is
inconceivable that the chancellor spoke
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, 1t
says:
ut is a poor beginning of hospitality
on the kaiser's part to allow his chan
cellor to indulge in language intention
ally 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 further
disturbing the relations between Great
Britain and Germany.
Such comments as those quoted above,
it is thought, may further inf1ame the
public, already angered owing to the
snub administered by Emperor William
a few days ago in the North German
Gazette. This paper is the chief mouth
piece of the government, and in it
note appeared saying that the statement
in the English press that the German
emperor had pressed the Prince of
Wales to attend his birthday celebra-
ton was untrue, and explaining that
King Edward had suggested the visit
and that Emperor William had sent the
invitation