The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-07-13
GERMANY Is NOT
YET ISOLATED
Arbitration Treaty Signed With
Great Britain.
BRITISH PEOPLE SURPRISED
CONSERVATIVE ORGANS ARE
GREATLY DIsPLEAsED.

London. July 13.-The announcement
that an arbitration treaty between Ger
many and Great Britain was sigred yes
terday by Foreign Minister Lansdowne
and Count Wolff etternich. the German
ambassador. comes as a complete and not
ailosether- pleasant surprise 10 the Eng
nsn press and public It was against
such an agreement that the Spectator and
other powerful organs urged the govern
ment prior TO King Edwards visit TO
Emperor William at kiel. BY the papers
which echoed that warning the news or
the signing of the arbitration treaty ds
swallowed either with palpable dislike or
with i'll concealed disappointment.
The only whole-s0uled appreciation
comes. curIously enough from opposition
papers, The Daily News. the govern
ments most bitter opponent. warmly con-
graduates klng Edward on MS latest
achievement The Chronicle and the
Leader follow suit. while such a staunch
mouthpiece of the government as the
Telegraph expresses the belief that the
Anglo-German treaty cannot compare n
Importance with the convention concluded
with France ~
A similar method of evadinr criticism is
pursued by the Standard but the Post
frankly deserts the government. charac-
terizfng Lord LansdOwne's latest 0ipio-
matte stroke as a policy Of unsettled con-
NlctiOHS and Of prOmiscuous anna bility.
The Mail and other papers aceentuste
the fact that the agreement is very linn
tied IN scope and deals with minor mat
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is no indication whatever on the part Of
Germany of such an amicable disposition
as exhibited by France" and adds that IL
only German naval progress were re-
duced could both governments be con-
graduated on the arrangements
France May Suspect.
Especial stress is given to the editorial
ON the priority of the AnglO-French agree
ment by the fact that almost the moment
when Lord Lansdowne and Count Wolff
Metternich were signing the document at
the foreign office. NJ. C5mbun, the French
ambassador to Great Britain was laying
the last stone of the new pier at Folk
stone There the French ambassador
made a speech in which he declared he
was cemenung the good Fellowship and
friendship of the two nations created by
the Anglo French treaty. These express
sions are used with much effect in the
order to offset the fear. not expressed
except by the Post. that the French pub
lie NAV entertain. in view of the present
development, grave doubts Of British sin
cerity in the recent Cambon-Lansdowne
treaty.
The Telegraph. undoubtedly voicing Of
fetal opinion here. says:
Every person Of common sense must
rejoice in the elimination Of petty fric-
ton from the diplomatic intercourse or
Great Britain and any other great powers
We should desire above all things SINH
lar arrangement with our kindred. the
jnited States and there is nothing in the
world to prove an Identical agreement
with Russia.
In support Of its criticisms, the Post
SAYS that those VINO welcome the Anglo (
French treaty a master stroke laid /
stress on the fact that il left Germany
isolated. Now an agreement with Ger
many and the presence Of German
squadron at Plymouth are proofs that Z
Germany is not isolated.
The Standard. while not taking the I
treaty as an outcome of King EDWARD 5 /
visit TO .Kiel. says 1t is an appropriate 1
sequel TO that meeting.
With a few such sentences the Standard
proceeds TO dilate on the stability and /
advanta ges of the AngiO-French erteHte.
The Times makes no comment on the I
treaty.