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Show GERMAN SYMPATHY IS WITHUBERALS Kaiser Is Deeply Interested in Outcome of the English Elections. GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN , ACCUSED OP HAD FAITH Should Balfour Have Forming of Cabinet. Friction Will Be Caused With Germany. BY MALCOLM CLARKE. Special Cable to The Tribune.---, BERLTIS. ,Tan. In. Germany is deeply deep-ly interested in tho English elections which arc now bcinjr held aud German S3-mpathy is with the Liberals. Jt is felt here that in fomenting tho ''German ''Ger-man scare" tlio conservatives while simply indulging in politics have Cro-ated Cro-ated a situation which may develop aloug unpleasant linos and cause much friction if. Ivy an- chance Mr. Balfour should ,bc called upon to form a British cahinot. During tho campaign in England Eng-land tho German government has been accused of bad faith and all sorts of evil designs on the integrity of tho British empire and hence it is hoped and believed here that tho Liberals will win out in the genoral elections and pleasant plea-sant relations bo maintained between England ami Germany. In this connection con-nection a letter published by tho TJouisdi Asiatische lvorrospondoiii!, by Pr. Kohrbaeh, an authority on questions of Colonial and foreign "policy, is interesting. Speaking of the rccoiit action of tho Turkish government giving a British concern special shipping ship-ping privileges Dr. Tfohrbach says: v7hat turned ihe scales, both for the attitude of the Turkish ministry mid for the caution of the Turkish penerallssl-mo penerallssl-mo and the circles in touch "with him. must have been the knowledge of the Anglo-German "understanding" on the question of naval anna men Is. This understanding un-derstanding Is a fact. It is a fact in the r.ense that the development of our fleet, according to ih" existing navy law. Is not to be carried out. because, in authoritative au-thoritative quarters, decisive importance is attached to an "alleviation" of the situation wllh regard to England For the sake of this alleviation, which has been worked for wllli exclusive self-sacrifice self-sacrifice on the Herman side for a long time past the otherwise hardly understandable under-standable and deplorable altitude of ficrmnny In the Mannesmann sifTair must also bn looked at from this same point of view (,'ernian policy has abandoned Its eonnter-ganic to ihe English preparation prepara-tion for an Impending Invasion policy In I Mesopotamia. Dr. Tlohrhacli assures me that his statement is based on "trustworthy information." in-formation." Of course, there is no official of-ficial confirmation that the Gorman naval programme is to bo abandoned or' modified or that there, has been au Anglo-German, understanding. Tho proposal of Secretary of State Knox for an international arbitral court has .been received hero with interest, but that anything of great value will come of it is not generally believed. While Germany may bo williug to ac-copt ac-copt such an international court f'in principle' ' when it comes to putting tho principle into effective practice it is believed be-lieved that the difficulties will bo found io bo insuperable. Further details of the American plan will, however, be awaited with interest. Baromctor of Business Conditions. Tn Germany as in other countries tho fur and jewelry trades form a pretty Sood barometer of business conditions, err Naumann, the leading Berlin furrier, fur-rier, tells me that furriers have done ou an average a busiuess 30 per cent heavier than usual, especially in the morn expensive wares, such as sables. The manager of Messrs. Fricdlaender, court .-jewelers, assures mo thn t the f a-vorite a-vorite superlative here, "colossal," is the only term adequately descriptive of this year's purchases of pearls, diamonds dia-monds and gold aud silver plate. 'It was once a novelty for a German jeweler jew-eler to sell a pearl necklace costing 5000, and 1 lion the customer was usually a foreigner. But this senson uccklrlcos costing 12,500 have been regularly stocked and bought by German customers. Germnn navnl oflicejs have been quietly quiet-ly chuckling over several items of 11:1-nl 11:1-nl news from Great Britain. One is to the effect that when the broadside of eight J 2-inch guns on the new English Dreadnought St. Vincent was fired ou her gun trials it was found that part of the superstructure, was bent and twisted b' the concussion. Another is the reports re-ports of mutiny on the cruisers Levial-trau Levial-trau nnd fhnloz and reports of insubordination insubor-dination on other British war vessels. This feeling of amusemonl is increased by the recent speech of an English statesman that the personnel of tho British navy is so far superior to that of the. Germnn 1 lint even if Germany had a naval supremacy of two to one on paper England need havo no fear. It is also recalled with a smile that a Birtish officer in criticising the. new Gorman Dreadnought, "Nassau," said: "She offers n poor contrast io tho design de-sign of our own type. She sils tho water in a. toworing heap of superstructure, super-structure, moro like : floating fort than a slii. " from which he deduces, first., that the Nassau will offer a very large target; to hostile artillery; secondly, sec-ondly, that she will be a very unsteady gun "platform in a seaway. A young uaval officer said io nie llio other day. ' Tlie Nassau may In a poor type of battleship, but her own guns do not destroy her own superstructure, and tho German seamen may bo vastly inferior to tho English, but they do not mutiny and will obey orders. |