New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-03
Ritter Anti-American Cam
paign in Newspapers
of Fatherland.
OFFICIAL WARNINGS
ARE DISREGARDED
,huse and Irony Poured Upon
wilson and Bryan for Their
Mexican Policy.
fBy cable 10 The Tribune. !

n..n, Nav IA remarkable anti-Amer-
csmpaign is being waged by the
,a.l and militarist press Of Germany
60, the Mexican question. Since the
,.,,rr,ng Of the trouble influential papers
III 90 the "Vossische Zeitung," the
.nsutsche Tageszeitung" and others OF
Lear importance have been pouring
.,rsa and irony upon President Wilson
=, h,s Secretary of State for their
..,,,,q ~ the Mexican difficulty. The
,., government is greatly annoyed
,his extravagant outburst and mas
earned the newspapers by means or the
.,,ol.oficial "Norddeutsche Allgemeine
1s,,rre' that they must be more carefui
"a reserved. The warning, however
-. M, appear 10 have produced the de-
go effect and the Berlin press with but
,o, exceptions continues to look upon the
,,.v,csn imbroglio from the Mexican
poInt Of view.
1r.,s rress campaign is another sign OF
-. Increasing estrangement between Ger
many and the United States. Whiie 'he
oHcial relations between the two couh-
,,,es continue 10 be excellent, ana 'he
american Ambassador is rightly termeu
The most popular member of the dlpio-
Matte corps in Berlin at the present ume'
there Is no doubt that some real 1eeiihs
~ distrust does exist in Germany re-
s.rding America. Unless something 10
done and done at once, to abate the pres
an, feeling which 1t is quite certain rests
upon mere misunderstanding, II IS hAeiy
70 assume alarming proportions
German ears are still ringing with tne
hitting comments which their country
refusal TO participate I'm the san iran
cisco exhibition evoked in America. Ihe-e
has been much resentment expressed Oh
the sharp criticism of move WHICH, IL
Is contended here. was decided upon
merely 10 safeguard German commercial
interests. Germans have been reading IN
their newspapers with increasing disquiet
that americans are trying nothing but 10
CAPTURE Mexico, and thereby harm Ger
man interests there The Assumption
however foolish it may sound In the
United States, has been consldereu gus
pei truth here for many weeks ana mas
caused the distrust with which Ameri-
cans are now environed 10 increase apace'
II seems TO every one connected WIN
the American colony here that something
might be done to try TO restore things
10 their former position. The German
public does not doubt that James w. Ger
ard. whose ability and personality are
adequately fitted to his present POSITION
will do the right thing, but he has 10
wipe out the blunders of his predecessors
in the ambass adorship. All Americans
in Berlin, to be sure, regard Ambassador
Gerard as the right man in the right
Mace. but still II seems to many or them
that something more might be done to
try to give the relationship between Ger
many and the United States something
Of its former confidence and cordially.
The American Embassy is in the midst
Of busy session incident upon the
trouble in Mexico. German powder and
other ammunition are being ordered in
Quantities by the United States govern
nent, a fact which helps TO keep the en-
bassy staff very much occupied.
On Tuesday the Japanese Ambassador
and the Brazilian Minister lunched with
Nr. Gerard at the embassy.