Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-14
GERMANY and RUSSIA
Following Out the Line lnaugu-
rated BY Bismarck.
HERR Won BRANDT's ACTION
A Disciple and Adnirer Of the Iron
Chancellor.
EFFORT AT CHINA's PARTITION
Was Really the Cause Of Bringing
About the Russo-Japaness War
A Diplomats View.
HERR Won BRANDT's ACTION
FF0RT At CHINA's PARTITION

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More than once II has been openly stated
In ofacial circles that England was really
responsible for the Russo-Japanese war.
Russia believed-and believes today that
England and the adherents Of Lord Curxon
made It their business to bring about the
Russo Japanese war. At the same time.
Russia quite overiooks today. as she did
In the past. the policy OF Germany. which
for the last twenty-five years has been sys-
tematically directed to the definite object
Of getting Russia entangied in the affairs
OF the east.
''The game Of Germany. played with SO
much skill and discretion" said promi-
nent diplomat today. in discussing this
phase of the late war. lis none other than
that inaugurated by Bismarck. On many
occasions the iron chancellor IL said to
have shown a passionate desire to Gust
Russia from all participation in European
affairs and give her the fullest liberty of
action In Asia. He is reported to have
said to certain diplomats that Russia has
nothing to do with the west: her mission
is in Asia, for there she represents civiliza-
tion.
in 1880, during the amost acute period of
the negotiations between Russia and China
respecting huiJd ana Lie LII tctIitoASp tAO
action of Herr Won Brandt. the German
minister at Picking, affords the most con-
elusive proof that at that time the chan
cellor of William / was meneuyeEsAg 10 en-
Brandt, who by the way has taken so
active a part in the affairs of eastern ASIA
and has done SO much to introduce Ger
many into Chinese waters. was disciple
and an admirer of Bismarck
German Minister'S Advice.
when the Russo-Chinese conflict was at
its height and war was threatening
minister of one of the great western powers
at Picking sent the following Information
TO his government in the summer Of 1880:
Not only did Herr Won Brandt advise all
the Christian powers to agree simuita.
neously to crush China and each seize what
was most expedient, but he endeav0red TO
nush matters to the worst by exalting the
advantages of war between RUSSIA anu
China Recent statements mace ny I1eIt
Won Brandt confirm the idea tnat eheour-
apements to carry out such a strange poDcy
must nave been given by the cabinet OF
Berlin to that of st. Petersburg. AS soon
as the war should have broken out Herr
Won Brandt made no mystery OF the iii.en-
ton Of his government Fo ias thn navv
any well-chosen position whence the navy
~ Germany could usefully second the OPP
erations of her commerce or the aclioh oi
her diplomacy at Peking
ri
al ont that while Herr Won Brandt was
driving Russia to war. Germany was sup
plying arms TO the celestial empire. ne
stated that 10000 Mauser rifles naa peen
cold NV German merchants and enaI pars
had already been delivered. He followed
this statement with eonfoenIiai note "
his government. stating In eHect .tna' a.. -
vac of use to send such partlcuiars " o.
Petersburg. If only to eniigh n VIEWS lns which
insnired German policy in the presence VI
the difficulties pending between RUSSIA anu
China. c.n,.n no,,ev In
ch,na 10 the Kiao-Chau affair. Germany
nos entertaining secret plans with REGARD
". - 90 far back as 1890. Concerning tne
Russo-Japanese war, 1t Is geneIany Jill
MT with hopes that Russia would win. Pc
Cause a victorious Russia on the facihc
was expected to be as proftaple 70 aeIn. III. =.
as the power Of the car IN Europe - nu"
observation-disclosures az On the other hand, Hus-
sia In not getting Korea and In neing
Forced to abandon southern Manchurfa 70
the mfkado, caused Germany 70 become lne
first enemy of Japan. Embrolieo IA tue al a.,
faira ~ the far east, Russia must leave the
Ralkan peninsula, Constantinopie ana Iur-
kev in Asia almost free to German lnnu-
ence.
German Commercial Invasion.
"Tbe German commercial invasion OF
Russia, said the diplomat, rs something
now that has ceased to be theoretical. 70
conplete the picture of German expansion
II Ia necessary to speak of the German III
no sion of Russia where thousands upon
thousands of immigrants have established
themselves In the Baltic provinces, IN VOL.
hynia, and in the valley OF the Don; OF
Turkev where German friendship for the
suItan has secured, each year. some ad-
vantage for the empire: or ASA Mihor,
through which the German line connects
with the great railroad to the PERSIAN guiI'
a
German port and where, since the spec
tacuIar visit of the kaiser, German In
fluence has made considerable progress; OF
Argentina, where England Is already some
what supplanted; even of India, and, with
In recent years, of China ana OF the Pacino
ocean.
s.In the last named. the attitude OF Ger
man colonists has raised new 'Pacinc
question Since her awakening to COM
mercial conquest, and especially since her
creation Of the two most powerful instru-
ments In foreign expansion-a navy and
merchant marine-Germany has also direct
ed her ambitions toward certain islands in
the Pacific ocean. Thanked on the east by
Kiao-Chau. on the Chinese coast by Shan
tung, the German colonies OF the Pacific
Marshall Brown and Providence Islands In
the northeast: German New Guinea. with
the Caroline Palaos and Mariana groups
to the north: the Solomon and the Bismarck
archipelagoes to the east, and even Samoa.
which, still farther to the east. dominates
the route from New Zealand to the Ha-
wafian Islands-all form kind of arch
which commands the great ocean road to
Australia. In all these islands. coloniza-
ton is In It's most active conditions. and a
naval base has been established In the Bis
marck archipelago.
"Ail this proves that Germany Is using
Russia to her own advantageous ends. She
sends Russia to disastrous wars. thus leav-
ing no offensive military danger to the en-
pire. while the German military power In
the old world Is almost doubled, SO to
L. ,vxyfc
ornaments. Germany seems to know how
to deceive Russia, and Russia has always
defended herself badly against her patient
and tenacious German adversary"
Judgment Worthy Of Solomon.
Special CabEegram to The Star.
FRANKFORT. May 1.-THE Bavarian
courts have just issued a. Judgment
worthy of solomon.