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Show TnE German Press on Sciienck and the Emma. The Frecurscur, of Antwerp, expresses the hope that no one will buy the Emma mining shares after tho proprietors of tho mtno have attempted to use the cloak of official recommendation to add to the prestige of what they offer to tho public.: : The Independence- Jitlge caffa the. conduct of general S one nek., "regrettable "regret-table in the extreme,"- but believes that "he has acted without due refW tion, and that his inexporieuco in diplomatic dip-lomatic affairs led him into this deplorable deplor-able error." The London correspondent of the Hamburg Nev:s says : "We have a sensation hero in consequence of the unheard of act that one of our leading foreign diplomatists, tho ambassador of the United Sutes, has seen tit to add his name, with his full official title, to the list of persons who have recommended recom-mended a certain silver mine in Western West-ern America as an excellent investment to the people of England, The affair is commented upon in a manner by no means favorable to the American ministry. min-istry. The London correspondent of the B tiser-Zeitung (Bremen) alludes iu similar terms to tne affair, and adds : "Such a gross degradation of the disunity disu-nity of a foreign embassador has never been heard of here., The report was at first hardly credited. " The Frankfort Journal compares Schenek's action in regard to the Emma mine with the conduct of the dukes of U jest and Ratibore in regard to Strousberg's Roumanian railroad transactions, and asks if, io ease of litigation liti-gation about the' Emma mine, general Schenck should be sued, would he plead his immunities as a foreign ambassador am-bassador ? . . |