The Cairo bulletin., 1907-07-29
H AGUE DELEGATES
CO IN POLITICS
BIERBESsTElN, GERMAN LEADER
ATTEMPTS TO HOLD FRIEND
SHIP OF TWO COUNTRIES.
TROUBLE FOR ENGLAND
Caused BY Herself-2ollcy viii Make
It scapeeoat Of the Conference
Japan Has An Ak
tn Grind.

\ The Hague, July 2S.-It has taker
The Hague peace conference six
/ weeks to develop openly its possibility
as theater for c.ploTat'c inttigue
And the almost nsuperable difficulty
Of making any practical progress In
/ he commission has resented IA some
icf tho important members turning
their minds to the political uses that
| can be extracted from their discus
siors.
Bebcrste'h now is going in for this
| with a gusto He never lets escape q
chance of rising TO explain the en-
! tiluslasm wherewith he indorses any
emark dropped by the American and
French delegates His tribute to the
American proposal of compulsory ar
t!traticn was couched throughout in
the superlatlve, although actually his
arheson to the proposal was not so
thorougagoing as England's, and on
every occasion the German plenipo-
ltentiary's bfotherly love for the bouI-
eoise head of the French missin was
50 demonstlatiye that it is already
arousing suspicious.
Germany had scarcely less success
than Italv, whose lukewarmness to
the triple alliance she only recently
was censurlng. In this conference
Count Tornielli, the leader of the
Italian mission, came out as thor
eughgong pacifcist
Janan Has Ak to Grind.
italy at the commencement was un-
der a real debt OF gratitude to Eng.
land for the later's conduct in the
first conference when Lord Sal'Sbnry,
-alnno among the European statesmen,
insisted that no invitation should be
sent to the vatican If the Italian gov
ernment objected. but at this meet
ing England lost all Of the ground aud
more, largely throug her thoroughness
in seeonding the objections of her
ally, Japan, to the important proposals
which the majority of Tornielli's com
mission advanced, dealing with the
rights and duties the neutrals would
accept
Japan has not forgotten the tlagrant
favors the Russian fleets got from
France and Germany two years ago,
and she is disposed to exact her pound
Of flesh in favor of the English al.
lance, In securing that such favorit-
ism by osteusible neutrals is not Off
cially approved of by this conference.
The first apparent outcome of all
this maneuvering of conflicting inter
ests seems to be that King Edwards
patent and elaborate scheme for
isolating Germany has had formid-
able setback. Every development
here has been to the detriment of the
end of this policy. and 1t is England
herself that is getting the title of OBJ
England Making Trouble for Self.
Probably the head of her mission,
Sir Edwad Fry, knows this, but he is
a self.willed old gentleman who holds
TO the traditions of juris-
prdcnce as he kenw them fifty years
go. and no pressure from Cambpell- |
Bannerman can move him an inch. |
He neither wants a peerage, political
fame. nor pecuniary reward, and |
therefore is a difficult person to deal
with
Some alarmists see here the nucleus
ol a continental entente against Bng-
land. and it is certain that the British 1
mission is not playing any fine diplo'
macy to prevent It. The onlookers of
many nationalities regret the com
narative unimportance of the role
England is playing. and the fact that
she still is saddled with that empty |
aspiration about the burdens of arma-
ments which will be used against her
later when she is made the scapegoat |
for the disappointed hopes of the con
ference