The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1908-11-04
KA|SER'S BAD BREAK,
Chancellor Won BueIoW's sAuthor.
ity and Prestige Weakened.

How the Emperor's Recent Interview
Escaped Scrutiny of Foreign Office
officials-RadicaI, Liberal and So
cialist Journals Utilize the Event
to Urge Demand For a Ministry
Responsible to Parliament Instead Of
to the Crown Alone.
Chancellor Won Buelow's position
at Berlin appears to be almost un.
tenable. Far and wide through
out the empire the newspapers of all
parties discuss with varying degrees
of mockery, amazement and regret
the governments explanation of how
what purported to be enormously i'm.
portant utterances of the emperor, af.
focting three great powers, passed
through the hands of the chancellor
and a long line of foreign Office Off.
cials seemingly without having been
considered by any of them or even
read by most of those responsible for
the delicate foreign relations.
The emperor fully condones Prince
Won Buelow's part in the affair, but
the chancellor's authority and pres.
tige with the country have been so
shaken that he may again ask the
emperor to relieve him.
All the Radical, Liberal and Social.
ist journals utilize the event to urge
upon the country demand for a min
istry responsible to the parliament
and the people, instead of the continu-
ance of ministerial responsibility to
the crown alone.
In addition to the semi-official ac
counts already published, it is learned
that the emperor handed the manu-
script of the interview which appear
ed in the London Daily Telegraph and
the authorship of which is still undis-
closed, to Baron Won Jenisch, who was
attached to his encourage while the
emperor was absent from the capital
a short time ago, as the representa-
tive of the foreign Office, with the di-
rection to send 1t to Prince Won Bue-
low.
The chancellor described the note
from Won Jenisch. which accompanied
the manuscript, as referring to the
enclosure as an article, not as an in
terview, SO that the chancellor did not
consider II necessary to give it his
personal attention. The manuscript
consisted of a number of small film
sy-like sheets, the handwriting being
difficult to decipher, and the chancel-
lor referred 1t to Herr Won Mueller,
the minister at The Hague, who was
acting as the chancellor's private Sec
retary.
The latter, in his turn and without
examining the document, sent 1t to
the foreign office, where in the alb
scence of Herr Won Schoen, the secre.
tary of foreign affairs, it was read by
the subordinate officials, who did not
attach Importance to its contents, and
1t was returned through the proper
channels without further examination
until transmitted by one of the i'm
perial secretaries to England, where,
as the Tagliche Rundschau one of the
newspapers that is read in court, ar
istocratic and military circles, de-
scribed it, ''it emerged gayly into the
world, infuriating the French, Rus
slams, Dutch and Japanese, chilling
the British, exciting bitterness and
nervous irritation on the part of our
own people, and undermining our
neighbors' belief in our reliability"
The whole subject is likely to come
up fer debate in the reichstag, which
will assemble on Wednesday.