Show GERMANY AND SPAIN It has been announced from the throne of Spain that the Marianne Caroline Car-oline and PaJao islands belong to Germ V Ger-m that the kaiser acouired the title to them through purchase from the Saeasta ministry Whether the bargain vas made during dur-ing our late unpleasantness with Spain or subseQuent to the signing of the protocol has not been officially given out but in any event it throws some light on the conduct of the Germans at Manila and invests Captain Cognlans story with a new interest Several weeks ago The Herald explained ex-plained that Germany had been after the Caroline islands for a number of years but the acquisition oC the Mar lannes and others is evidently a later consideration And it begins to look as if the < kaiser actually dwelt upon the Philippines with covetous eyes in the early part of the war with Spain When the attention of Senor Del mazo the Spanish ambassador atom at-om < was called to the man manifestations mani-festations of friendship for his government govern-ment on the part of Germany and France he remarked These are but interested friends Jf tvc had not colonies to Jose they would not trouble themselves about us And he was rixit if not discreet For were Is little sentimentality in the average European power It is an age of avarice and greed Each looks upon the possessions of the others with f covetous eres and watches for an opportunity op-portunity to satisfy its hunger for land Germany has been waiting for a forced t sale of Spanish colonies for many years The destruction of the Spanish navy renders the eovernment of islands impracticable Im-practicable The expense of the war made it necessan for Spain to part with some of her possessions Jt vas thought that an agreement had been made to transfer the title to the Philippines Philip-pines and that this was the secret of r Von Diedrichs behavior Failing in 4 that deal the Carolines Mariannes and Palaos were bartered f It is a good bargain for Spain anyway any-way She is more in need of gold than of islands She is not prepared to take 4 part In the Chinese muddle and Germany rrI Ger-many is determined to do so And Ii every power that is itching to get into > what threatens to be an almost universal t 4 univer-sal war over the partition of China 1 needs a base of supplies in the Orient |