Show I EXTOL QUEENS REIGN German Press Highly Appreciative Appre-ciative of Late Monarch EULOGIZES HER AS SOVEREIGN While Praising Her Character tho Newspapers Add General Reflections Reflec-tions Unfriendly to Great Britain Particularly in Connection With th2 Boer War Berlin Tageblatt Considers Con-siders Her Death to Be of Serious Political Significance in a Time When Great1 Britain Is Involvcd I Berlin Jan 23AII the morning pa i pcrs are highly appreciative of the late Queen Victorias reign and concur Jn eulogizing her virtues as u sovereign but while prnlslyg her character they add general political reflections unfriendly un-friendly toi Great Britain particularly In connection with the Boer war I The Tagcblatt considers her death ta be of serious political slgmllcance in no moment when Great Britain Is Involved In the South African war and the Chinese Chi-nese question Is I noj solved The paper adds A largo part of the world which I condemns the war In South Africa ns j undertaken by Messrs Chamberlain t and Rhodes and other mining speculn f tors for their selfenrichment and the destruction oC a little freedomloving I I heroic people will see In her death at J such a moment a large measure of divine l I di-vine Justice for according to trustworthy trust-worthy Information It cannot be I doubted that the unfavorable turn oC the war for the English arms during the past few months bore heavily on the Queens heart and contributed to hastening her end The Tageblatt also remarks The manifold threads of relationship bei I twecn Great Britain and Germany cause Germany to regard the Queen as f above all tho grandmother of our Em l peror nnd It has proved the most enduring en-during bond between the two countries coun-tries sANEXAMPLE ANEXAMPLE OF PURITY The vosslsche Zeltung considers It IJ jUiifortunate that the Queen cherished awlsh for the title of Empress which qost so much blood I in India and also favored British Imperialism which cost so much blood In other parts oC the worjd But the paper says An unusually un-usually fruitful life has como to an end Her subjects not only bid farewell to a period of British history to which posterity will give her name but they also have to thank her for having in her family and court life set them an example of purity and truth which will endure for all time PURE NOBLE WOMAN The Boersen Courier praises the Queen as a model of beautiful human qualities and adds History knows but few examples of such a pure noble I womanly figure upon a throne Foreign peoples accord her the palm as a noblq woman and as an honor to her Hex The Berliner Neuste Nachrlchten praises the Queens good will toward I Germany and l says She saw Germany I rise without envy Continuing the paper surmises that the change In the throne will not affect British Influence or the grouping of the powers VICTORIAN AGE CLOSED The North German Gazette says The British emotion similar to that which stirred our hearts at the death of our first Emperor Ari that closed the William age in Germany so the Victoria Vic-toria age Is now closed In Great Britain Brit-ain The Klein Journal says With her life closed a volume of the history of mankind around her Everyone will feel the deep thrill caused by i the opening open-ing of the new age Tho Lokal Anzelger says The Queen remains one of the moat gracious figures that ever adorned the hone of England WELDED EMPIRE CLOSELY The Post says The Queen welded the empire Into closer bonds than ever < before and fruitfully upheld and Increased In-creased Its ppsltlon as a power of the world The Krcuz Zeitung BnysTho German Ger-man people 1 fully share the sad event which has brought such heavy grftJC upon a kindred people GLOWING TRIBUTE TO QUEEN The Cologne Gazette pays a glowing tribute to the memory and to the virtuoso vir-tuoso the deceased Queen and halls the new sovereign as a gracious find affable Prince free from prejudice and ripe in the experience of the world These qualities It adds guarantee an undisturbed continuance of the excellent ex-cellent relations between Great Britain and Germany THE NEW KING The tone of the press toward the new King Is i varied The Post emphasizes his most cordial relations with EmperOr Em-perOr William which It adds have not been without Influence upon his political politi-cal opinions NO FRIEND OF GERMANY The Deutsche Tftge Zcllung points to King Edwards close relations In the past with the British Chartered South African company Mr Rhodes and Mr Chamberlain concluding therefrom that he will throw his Influence for peaco conditions acceptable to the Boers and calls him no friend of Germany Ger-many but an advocate of Intimate relations re-lations between Great Britain and France The paper adds IIt would be all right for us if he prevailed with such views for It would then bo easier to Ilnd again our natural position NOT COMPLIMENTARY The Voerwnrts says He has been satisfied with tho reputation of being the bestdrcsHcd man In Europe and haw never shown mental gifts oC understanding under-standing for more oerloiiB conditions His acquaintance with the dcmlmondo ot all tim European capitals will make It easy for him to follow in the footsteps foot-steps of the three Georges Tile Cologne Volka Zeltung emphasizes empha-sizes that Emperqr Williams visit to England is I of purely I a private char actorWHAT |