The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1904-07-13
AAGLO-GERMlN TREATY
Official announcement Of
the Signing of an Arbi-
tration Convention
Between the Two
Countries.
BRITISH PUBLIC SURPRISED
NOT ALToGETHER PLEASED By
THE AFFAIR.

Just such an Agreement That the Pow
erfuI Organs Urged the Government,
Prior to King Edwards visit to Em-
peror william, at EieI, Against--rhe
Good Fellowship of England and
France In Contrast.
London, July 1S. Official announce
ment was made to-day that an arbitra-
tion treaty between Germany and Great
Britain was signed yesterday by For
eign Minister Lansdowne and Count
Wolff -Metternich, the German ambas-
sador. It comes as complete and not
altogether pleasant surprise to the Eng
lish press and public. It was against
just such an agreement that the Spec
tator and other powerful organs urged
the government prior to King Edwards
visit to Emperor William at Kiel. BY
the papers which echoed that warning
the news of the signing of the arbitra-
tion treaty is swallowed either with
palpable dislike or with ill-concealed
disappointment
The only whole soriled appreciation
comes, curiously enough from opposi-
tion papers. The Daily News, the gov
ernment's most bitter opponent, warmly
congratulates King Edward upon his
latest achievement. The liberal Daily
Chronicle and the Morning Leader fol-
low suit while such staunch mouth
piece Of the government as the Daily
Telegraph devotes half of its editorial
on this subject, to the expression of the
belief that the Anglo German treaty
cannot compare in Importance with the
convention concluded with France.
A similar method of evading criticism
is pursued by the Standard, but the
Morning Post frankly deserts the gov
ernment. characterizing Lord Lans-
downes latest diplomatic stroke as a
t.policy of unsettled convictions and of
proniiscuous aniability.'
The Daily Mail and other papers ac-
ceiituate the fact that the agreement is
very limited in scope and deals with
minor matters. The Daily Mail declares
that '.there unhappily is no indication
whatever pm the part of Germany Of
such an afnicable disposition as exhib-
tied by France and adds that only If
the German naval programme was re-
duced could both governments be con-i
graduated upon the latest arrange
ments.
An especial point is given to the ed
itorial stress upon the priority of the
Anglo-French agreement by the fact
that at almost the moment when Lord
Lansdowne and Count Wolff Matternich.
were signing the document at the for
eign office, M. Cambon, the French am
bassador to Great Britain was laying
the last stone of the new pier at Folk
enstofle. There the French ambassador
made a speech. which is given great
publicity, and in which he declared he
was cementing the good fellowship and
Friendship Of the two nations. created
BY the Anglo French treaty. These ex-
pFessfons are used with much effect in
ifile editorials Of the government or
gans, IN order to offset the fear, not
expressed except in the Morning Post,
that the French public may entertain,
in view OF the present development,
grave doubts Of British sincerity in
the recent Cambon-L -Landsdowne treaty.
The Daily Telegraph, undoubtedly
voicing the official opinion here, says:
stBismarck's principle of Toujiours en-.
Nadette will still remain a necessity at
Wilhelmtrasse, but it must remain the
vital idea under all circumstances of
our own admiralty. But every person
of common sense must rejoice in the
elimination Of petty friction from the
diplomatic intercourse Of Great Britain
and any 9Aer great power. We should
desire above all things a similar ar
rangement with our kindred, the Unit
ed States, and there is nothing in the
world to prevent an identical agree-
ment with Russia"
In support Of its criticism the Morn
ing Post says that those who welcomed
the Anglo-F French treaty as a master
stroke laid stress on the fact that it left
Germany isolated. Now an agreement
with Germany and the presence Of a
German squadron at Plymouth are
proofs that Germany is not isolated"
The Standard, while not taking the
treaty as an outcome of King Edwards
visit to Kiel, says it is an appropriate
SEQUEL to that meeting.
With a few such sentences the
Standard proceeds to dilate on the sta
bility and advantages of the Anglo
French entente.
The Times, somewhat strangely,
makes no comment on the Anglo-Ger-
man treaty.
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