The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1908-06-02
GERMANY SOUNDS
WARNING NOTE
Semi-Ohcial Reply to Attempts of
France To Heal the
Breach
STATEMENTS OF A DIPLOMAT.
No Hope That the Treaty of Frank
fort Will Ever Be
Changed

BERLIN. May 25.-Baron Won Ho-
stein, for many years director of the
division of higher politics OF TIC ror-
eign Office, and who, since his re,ile-
ment in 1906, has continued to eXer-
case a certain influence on the foreign
policy of Germany, discusses Franco
German relations in a remarkable in
teryiew made public today. This in
terview was probably issued with the
approval of the Foreign Office, mas
much as it appears in the Nord
Deutscher zeitung.
Referring TO the efforts of private
persons to bring ABOUT Franco-Ger-
man understanding, the Baron Says:
Il consider that the time will come
when the hatred of the two nations
will diminish, because it causes useless
expenditures. l should regard such
efforts as entirely inoffensive if 1t
were not for the occasional CROPPING
up in the French press of a tendency
to interpret them as the first symp-
toms of a disposition of mind which
will eventually lead to revision OF
the treaty of Frankfort.
This current of thought could only
bring establishment and a conse-
quent recrudescence of bitterness.
am sure that Germany as a nation
would reject with the utmost energy
the idea of such a revision. 1t would
be an affectation to dismiss the posi-
biity of existence of a certain class in
Germany which would welcome chan
4 ges in the treaty as one of the most ef-
| ticacious methods to bring about the
decomposition of the empire, yet az
overwhelming majority of Germans are
prepared to defend the terms of the
Frankfort treaty, and in a similar
manner they are ready to defend the
empire
Il am unable to give Emperor viii.
liam's views on this subject, but l be-
sieye myself in position to state that
his majesty is in perfect accord viii
the majority OF his subjects in main.
tanning the integrity of his grand
fathers work. 1t is for the benefit O
both nations that a misunderstood
! ing one this subject should be avoided
Il think the peace of the present da!
has a splendid chance OF continuing
The inner workings and social polite
not only of Europe, but of the cIvlliz
ed world, are so complicated and 81
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would be set at work in the event o
war that nobody can foresee the devel
opments which a European war woulC
! have in Europe and elsewhere 1t il
impossible to calculate these possible
deve opments because so much is un
| known, such as famine, revolution ant
| the temptations to those who look up
on the conflict from the outside. rhi
reality is>knOwn to the government
and it is beginning to be recognizes
by the peoples"
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navigated the world nearly 400 year
ago.
LindstrOm's Arctic explorations hav
been quite extensive. He was witt
Captain SVerdrup on his famous expe
dition, and again with Nansen when h
approached within few degrees of tn
Pole. His last Arctic voyage was wit
Captain Amundsen on the Gjoa, whe
the Northwest Passage was first navi
gated. AS Lindstrom is the only mem
Der of the crew of the Gjoa VIII
rounded the Horn, it makes him tn
first and only one to have circumnavi
gated the American continent.
Twice Lindstrom has sailed throug
the Golden Gate, once after havin
rounded the most northern point c
America and once after having round
ed the most southern point. Whe
Lindstrom came to this city with Car
tain Amundsen he went overland t
New York and thence to oNrway, c
which country he is a native Return
ing to New York, he shipped on tn
Lurline, belonging to the Matson Nav
cation Company, and bound Tor thi
port When he arrived in this POI
last week he had circumnavigated tn
continent and, so far as known, is tn
only person who enjoys this distinC
ton.
Lindstrom is a guest of the FraI
Club, the organization which enter
tanned Captain Amundsen and his Gre
their arrival here He is modest II
garding his achievement, and scarcel