Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-03-01
ALSACE- LORRAINE TROUBLES,

veaied the peril of becoming the leader
OF such q force! This press in order to
spur him on accused him OF lack OF en-
erey' ana nnally. during five years. nos
man was more UNANIMOUSLY abused by IL.
He brought actions in court most stupiaiv,
against the Gazette du Rhin and TS4e,
Iaegnshe Rundschau. and obtained only
Baron Won Bulach, according to, hispxn
mere instrHsnt s"o'f su L t sne the ISe Gid Fl
hand. Count Wedel found In the pirsoAi
terror. a docile auxiliary of his policy.
This policy was always ready to aug
ment incidents in order to reap the glory
of REFRESHING them. We find people like
the nationalist peril" and after the
elections of 1911 boosted that hei had
mastered II!
The wretched interdictions of every
enumeration would Ill columns. have rem
dered the regime 'Wedei HuIafh' IN
famous in Alsaee-Lorraine. But. not
withstanding the zeal employed by Count
in the eyes OF the pan-Germanists The
publicity given to the most insignificSt'
incident provoked i'm the pan-Germanfc
press OF the other side of the Rhine
new uprising. sr = S~r-~
The reports sent to Berlin were deemed
insufficient and credence was given To
other reports which UP TO that time had
not been counted-the reports of mill
ce-Lorraine as being in state of open
revolt. The legend of the enemies,
country was thus created and the gcir
eminent accepting the military idea, the
ministers imagined that TREY weFe free
to act as masters in the land OF 'the
empire II was this idea that produced
the incidents at Zabern the consequence
direct OF the regime Wedel-Bulach." Be.
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statthalter and his ministers did not
know how. to .'canalize'' they. have
fallen from power, 'statthalter and min
listers victims of their, own errors.
The Berliner Tageblatt writes that
Count Won Roedern is a personality high
~ esteemed, with nothing OF that rho
domantism common to the Prussiari.
hobby or country squire. The count
stands very high at Berlin. The same
journal reiterates that Herr Won Beth
mann Hollweg will succeed Count Weuel
as stathalter.
IL is SAID that Herr Won Bethplann de
sires to remain in the chancellerie until
the conclusion of the
Anglo-German Angio-German accord.
Accord which absorbs at this
moment the ehancef-'
leries of both Berlin and London This
Anglo-German accord is nothing less than
the question of German and English rail-
ways in Asia Minor. and above all of the
German transequatoriaI railroad from the
Dar-es-Salaam on the Indian ocean I'd
Tanganyika lake and 10 .Benquala on
the Atlantic. The importance of this
iast-named question is incalcuiabie. but
some idea of the desire of DR.. Won Beth
mann to conclude an Anglo-German ae-
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that the German transequatorial bisects
at Katauga the British cape to Cairo
road, which is to be. but il not yet: The
furry at the British foreign office over
this German surprise is reported as indie
scribable. That Germany should have
of railway without the knowledge of
Great Britain is an incredible surprise.
That DR.. Won Bethmann-Holweg should
desire to remain at his present post
rather than take over that of the staff
halter of Alsace-Lorraine until he shall
have concluded a Germano-English ac-
cord in central Africa is quite compre-
hensible. The game is surely worth the
candle.
Sir Harry tombstone, according to a re-
cent dispatch from London. ;:.makes a
contribution to the controversy -resulf.ng
from the Zabern incident by suggesting
that Metz be retroceded to France as the
corner stone which might unite US all
three In an alliance to maintain peace
Otherwise. he adds. the future of the
old and new world is to Russia and the
United States"
The ''all three to which Sir Harry al
ludes means, of course. Germany. France
and England. Sir Harry's proposition
lacks applicability to the actual situation.
Besides his hypothesis is erroneous that
outside Of Metz 1.-THE rest of Alsace-L or-
ralne is too German in race and Language
to belong to the French system" Sir
Harry is FAR aside of the question: Al
sace-Lorraine Is a unit for return to
France or II not. she demands autonomy
the re-establishment of her ancient king
dom with neutrality. These are the pos
sibie corner stones" of the Alsace-Lar-
raine question accentuated by the Zabefin
incident.
The Star had occasion in 1912 in the
discussion of the "Alsace-Lorraine ques-
ton" to cite the frank confession of
German statesman on the subject Herr
Delpruck, secretary of state. who said:
Alsace-Lorraine when first added to Ger
many was essentially German. But II
should be borne in mind that when sep
arated from the German empire the latter.
was in state Of profound ANARCHY
;alsatians took no part IN the intellectual
life of Germany awakened by Schiller ami
Goethe. They learned Of France what,it
meant to belong to "a grand and power II
state unified under a central government -
This statement of the case from such 4
undoubted German authority should pie
serve US from suggestions that are who'll,
inappicable and foreign to Asaee and
Lorraine aspirations
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.Alsace-Lorraine has Just now eXDer'-
enced a great bereavement in the death
Of NJ. Paul Derot-.
Eject OF lcde, president dc
n.r,,,,.l..a n.AL Ia Ligue de Pa
triotes, who died
at Nice January 81.
Paul Dcroulede. poet patriot and soldier.
WIS the most popular man iBs Ffanse. DO
cause he was thc incarnation of tie Irt-'
trot, the enthusiastic .hearer-defender of
the fag-in which he was wrapped after :
death He was the greatest and most
constant friend of .Alsatian Lorraine.
nj. Sansboeuf. confrere of the Alsatian !: