The Sentinel=record., 1914-07-05

Berlin, July 4.-Did President Me
 Kinley cable to Admiral Sampson
 during the war with Spain: Don't
 risk single ship; war with Germany
 iminent' ?
 A writer who uses the pseudonym
 of Carolus Adolphus, and who is un- derstood to be a former prominent diplomat declares that this dispatch
 was sent, following closely on the Dewey. .Dedrichs dispute at Manila.
 The statement is made in a book en-
 titled "Julchen in the Land of Liber- ty." which consists of a series of let
 ters describing trip to America. One of these letters describes the Ma nila incident, and continues:
 "The question is, what did our dip lomats have in mind in sending a fleet? If it had been a merely a mat ter of protecting Germans life and property, an armored skiff would have done. The truth is, however. Iidi ht ltdliN AiAtflhth Nu EihU llIt Philippines if possible, since we were badly informed and believed that the Americans did not want them. This mistake of ours was strengthened by the then Ambassador to Germany, MT. Andrew White. He is believed to have held the opinion that by occu- pying the Philippines the United States would simply be thrusting fishhook into it's own skin-and he was not so far wrong-and he ex- pressed this opinion. howbeit quite unofficially, in Wiiliamstrasse, al- though he later denied officially that he had said anything of the kind.
 In any event, the sending of our fleet to the Philippines provoked great displeasure in America, es- pecially since Washington knew of our intentions. 1 recently made the acquaintance of an American officer who had been the adjutant of the lthen ommander-in-chief in the Gu |ban campaign. This officer, who spoke excellent German, told me that he still had a copy of a telegram from the then President Mckinley direct to the commanding admiral in Cuban waters, which read; Don't risk 8 single ship; war with Germany imminent
 This is an absolute fact, and the historians can take official notice of It."
 An astonishing commentary upon the conditions in the German thea trical world, has been furnished by libel suit at Munich.
 Ernst Schrumpf, director of the Munich Folks theatre, brought ac- ton against the publisher of a maga- zine devoted to stage affairs who had accused Schrumpf of mistrcatment of his employees The testimony at the trial disclosed conditions which moved the presiding judge to declare mat We have experienced a great ueal m this courtroom, but never be- Tore such testimony as this process mas brought to light. The poorest ~orkingmen are better off than these actors. Workingmen would not en- uuFe such treatment"
 Unconiradicted testimony showed | mat 5chrumpf was accustomed to sulhe and kick actors and to lash | 'nem with a whip; that actresses | were engaged at a salary of sl5.00 to | F--'oo monthly and required to fur hiSh their own wardrobes, although tue theatre was extremely profitable | ana Schrumpf had become rich through its management: that the di' rector had declared in the presence ol 'he whole company that "it is a plly that we are not in Russia, so | Oouiu walk into you with a knout"; ''at ne had struck a woman prompter III the lace with a bunch of keys ueIihah keys are so big and heavy ,udI d bunch of them is almost a dead ''' "eapon) The testimony concern '"e tle plaintiffs conduct toward the "oinen ot his company was of such