The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05
.DR. PETERS MAKES
 SEVERE CRITICISM Declares England Is Soap
 ing" German Statesmen IDEA. OF AMERICANS War Between Germany and England
IDEA OF AMERICANS
War Between Germany and England Would Be Fought Without Allies. Expect Russio-T Turkish War.
 Russio- Chinese Relations
By FREDERICK WERNER

Berlin, May 1, Special )-Never has the German foreign department been submit ted to such scathng criticism as in re- cent article by pr. Carl Peters, the we'll known African explorer. who tells hls countrymen that the man who is at present guiing the German foreign policy is as wax in the hands of the far smarter statesmen of Great Britain.
 Even when Lord Haldane's visit caused the talk of an Anglo-German approach ment, pr. Peters knew, he declared, that the British government had some hidden motive for '"seaping' as he expresses It, German statesmen. This motive, after all was easy to discover. The British govesn- ment was anxious to come before Paria- ment with peaceful foreign outlook Be- sides, it already know of the threatening coal strike, and the German Michel was to be kept in q good humor while the danger lasted.
 pr. Peters then goes on to assert that an Anglo-German understanding is only possible on the basis of an honorable agreement in which Germany is not to come off second best. During Lord Hal danes visit he says. this was theoretical ly recognized. For example, it was de- clared that. should Germany desire the Portugues Colonies and Portugal consent England would offer no opposition pr. Peters sarcastically exclaims. How mag nanimous Portugal has already declared that she does not intend to part with foot of her Colonial possessions, and therefore he says. England's magnanim- ity towards Germany is rather super fiuous.
 The author of the article reminds his readers that between England and Por- tuual there exists a treaty by virtue of which England guarantees the inviolabil- ity of the Portuguese Colonial possess sions. pr. Peters mischievously suggests that this treaty, which was published in March, as probably being negotiated while Lord Hadane in Berlin was Juggling" with German Statesmen with regard to these very possessions. In one of the par agraphys of this treaty, England pledges herself to fortify the Cape Verde Is- land at her own cost, and it will be re- membered that when Lord Haldane was in Berlin the British Press was offering these islands to Germany in settlement of Anglo-German differences.
 pr. Peters, who has constituted him. self a sort of infallble authority on African questions, has much to say about Mir. Chamberlains Anglo German agree ment of 1898. The entire business he says. a trick in order to keep Ger many quite during the Boar War. As soon as the war was ended, he says, the Eng fish government executed a complete volte i face. and the agreement became a worth less sheet of paper. Dr. Peters would like | to know whether Germany, which possess | es excellent business men, will ever pro- duce diplomatists of sufficient ability to contend with the British. Hitherto all
  | fooled by the British, and this Is why German patriots. when they hear that Germany and England are negotiating | about anything. are filled with such anxiety and dread.
 If Germany, Dr. Peters declares, Is to seek for an entente with England she must have some definite object in view; without this 1t is foolishness. England's s friendship. with France and Russia Will | remain unchanged. England will insist or her maritime and overseas supremacy and her traditional position as the pos sessor of monopoly, What concessions therefore can she make to Germany Only fear will make is yield.
 In conclusion, Mr. Peters has some very bitter things to say about the German foreign office and it's subserviency to Eng land. but he looks forward to the time when a real statesman will arrive on the
 
 and enable the nation 10 raise It's head proudly. When this statesman arrives | the first who will have to face uncom- | fortable realities will be the English. The | Germans will then be able to arrange an entente as it pleases them
 1 The well known German paper, Kreuz- 1 Zei tung has correspondent In New York | who puts forward a statement in regard | to what people in America are thinking | of the future relations between Germany | and England, which has given rise to l much discussion. If we to believe the correspondent, political circles in America l do not think a war, if war there must be- will occur between Germany and England supported by allies. but that 1t will be a | duel between Germany and unsupport- | ed England. The correspondent claims | that his countrymen are no bad judges in l such matters. and cites the then quite | disregarder prophecy of an American geii- | eral at St. Louis, four yeak before it's outbreak of a war between Russia and | Japan and the extreme probability there was that the Japanese would be the vlc- l tors. American opinion, according to the | New York writer, is that France. Eng 1 lands natural ally In case of a war with | Germany does not wish war or mean war | for had she meant or wished it she had ample occasion for declaring 1t repeatedly | in the last few years. The American I idea is that England would rather enter | ,,por u,or v-tfh Germany single ha ndad