The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-09-30

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also announced in the Reichstag what
he stated to Chirol, personally would
not have been drawn into the matter
TO such an extent.
In February, 1900, while the Boer
war was in progress and while | was
with the fleet at Heligoland attending
the manoeuvres of ships of the line,
after having been present at the swear
ing in of recruits at Wilhelmshafen
l received news by telegraph from the
Wilhelmstrasse via Heligoland, that
Russia and France had proposed to
Germany to make az joint attack on
England, now that she was involved
elsewhere, and cripple her sea traffic.
1 objected and ordered that the pro-
posal be declined.
Since assumed that Paris and St.
Petersburg would present the matter
at London in such way as to make
it appear that Berlin had made the
above proposal to both of them, I i'm
mediately telegraphed from Heligo-
land to Queen Victoria and to the
Prince of Wales (Edward) the fact of
the Russo-French proposal, and its re-
pressing her hearty thanks, the Prince
of Wales with an expression of as
constituent.
| Later, her Majesty let me know Sc
CT city that, shortly before the receipt
of my telegram from Heligoland con-
corning the proposal from Paris and
] st. Petersburg, the false version of
the matter foreseen by me had indeed
been told, and that she was glad to
have been able, thanks to my dispatch,
to expose the intrigue to her Govern
ment and quiet it as to the loyal atti-
tude of Germany; she added that she
would not forget the service I had
done England in troublous times.
Deal With Cecil Rhodes.
When Cecil Rhodes came to me, in
order to bring about the construction
of the Cape-to-Cairo Railway and
Telegraph line through the interior
regions of German East Africa, his
wishes were approved by me, in agree
ment with the Foreign Office and the
Imperial Chancellor; with the proviso
that branch railway should be built
via Tabora, and that German material
should be used in the construction
work on German territory. Both con-
ditions were acquiesced in by Rhodes
most willingly. He was grateful at
the fulfillment of his pet ambition
by Germany, only a short time after
King Leopold of Belgium had refused
his request.
Rhodes was full of admiration for
Berlin and the tremendous German in
dustrialsplants, which he visited daily
He said that he regretted not having
been in Berlin before, in order to have
learned about the power and efficiency
of Germany, and to have got into
touch with the German government
: and prominent Germans in commercial
circles. He said he had wished, even
before the Jameson raid, to visit Ber-
lin, but had been prevented in London
at that time from so doing; that, had
he been able to inform us before OF
his plan to get permission to build the
Cape-to-Cairo line through the Boer
; countries, as we'll as through our col
, onies, the German Government would
probably have been able to help him
by bringing persuasion to bear upon
Kruger, who was unwilling to grant
this permission; that "the stupid
Jameson Raid" would never have been
made, in that case, and the Kruger
tdispatch never written-as to that dis
patch, he had never borne me a grudge
on account of it.
He added that as we, in Germany
: could not be correctly informed as tc
aim and actual purposes, the said rait
must have looked to us like IAN act o.
piracy" which NJ urally and quite
rightly had excited the Germans;
that all he had wanted was to have
, such stretches of land as were needed
for his rail lines-such, in fact, as Ger
many had just granted to him in the
interior of her colonies-a demand
. which was not unjust and would Ger
tainly have met with German support
: was not to worry, he added, abou
: the dispatch and not bother mysel
any more about the uproar in the Eng
, lish press. Rhodes did not know abou
: the origin of the Kruger dispatch ant
: wanted to console me, imagining tina
l was its originator.
r Rhodes went on to advise me Il
build the Bagdad railway and open vi
q Mesopotamia, after having had irriga
\ ton simultaneously introduced there
\ He said that this was Germany's task
2 just as his was the Cape-to-Cairo line
+ In view of the fact that the buildini
i VI JHlS line through our territory wa
a also made dependent upon the cessiol
i to US of the Samoan Islands, Rhode
). worked actively in London toward hay
ing them turned over TO us
l. In home politics, Prince Hohenlohe
r as Chancellor, showed a mildnes
', which was not generally favorable
,, Owing to his long acquaintanceshi
k with Herr Won Hertling, he was able I
/ establish friendly relations with III
o Vatican. His mildness and indulgenc
e were also exercised toward Alsac'
d Lorraine, in which, as an expert {
l. long standing, he showed particu1a
n interest. But he got little thanks fo
this, since the French element, ind
!" rectly benefited thereby, behaved wit
eVer-increasing arrogance.
e Pen Sketch Of HohenIohe
It Prince Hohenlohe loved to emplo
II mediation, compromise and concilii
It tion-toward the Socialists likewise
E. and he employed them on some occ;
l sions when energetic measures woul
E. have been more fitting. He halle
with much joy my Far East trip [
al Constantinople and Jerusalem H
% was pleased at the strengthening
ID our relations with Turkey and consi
cred the plan for the Bagdad railwa
lie arising from them as a great cultur;
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