Show I I SHOULD READ PAPERS Why German Emperor is Not I Up With the Times I I HE NEGLECTS NEWSPAPERS I I r Personal Employees of the Kaiser r I Clip the Daily Journals for the Emperor i Em-peror and These Extracts Alone aro I 1 All He Heads Gorman Press I Strongly Admonishes Him to Devote De-vote Half an Hour a Day to Glancing Glanc-ing Over Lending Party Organs I Would lie Better Informed Berlin Dec IA representative of I I the Foreign office here informed the correspondent of the Associated Press I I today that Germany has not indicated I a disposition to modify her demand i f for the punishment of the guilty Chinese I I Chi-nese olllclals since she does not yetI I yet-I know I what the different powers want GermanyTabove all the official said I I wants harmony of action Germany foresaw that the note formulated by I the Peking Ministers would not be accepted ac-cepted entirely by all the powers We I have to admit that several of the powers I I pow-ers including Russia desire a change In several of the provisions The I whole matter Is still Involved In great uncertainty SQ that It Is Impossible to I predict what form the final agreement I will take EMPEROR A PRISONER The correspondent of the Associated Press today Interviewed the Chinese Minister heie who said This cannot be a question of the execution of Prince r Tuan or Gen Tung Fuah Slang who I are still de facto In control of the court Thc both keep l the Emperor and Empress virtually prisoners The court Is unable to go to Peking even if j inclined to do so Besides the long II journey from Sianfu to Pelting now that the snow Is on the ground Is almost al-most impossible with the vehicles in use in those primitive districts Starving Starv-ing out the court Is not feasible The allies will be unable to carry out such a measure However even If It were possible the provinces would rise In a body for the courts defense LOST CONFIDENCE IN LI The worst feature is I that the court has lost confidence in LI Hung Chang and Prince Ching who have demonstrated demon-strated their impotence to deal properly prop-erly with the invading powers Under these circumstances It Is certain the Chinese troubles cannot be adjusted before spring orsummer Baron von angenheirs assertion In the Reichstag that Emperor William Wil-liam Is systematically misinformed Is still discussed bj the press The Cologne Co-logne Yolks Zeltung says editorially that It is notorious that his Majesty does not read the papers representIng the various parties but only daily extracts ex-tracts made by personal employees Thus the paper adds depending entirely upon the personal prejudices of his entourage he sees only such clippings clip-pings as his entourage wants and is necessarily getting wrong Impressions Impres-sions ADMONISHES THE EMPEROR The Volks Zeltung strongly admonishes admon-ishes the Emperor to hereafter devote half an hour dally to glancing personally per-sonally over the leading organs of each party saying that then he must really feM the pulse of the nation The disproportionately large share which the Socialist members of the Reichstag have had in the debates since the Relchstag reconvened arouses much press comment The Deutsche Tages Zeltung says It sounds strange but It cannot be denied that the Socialists already dominate the parliamentary proceedings CENTRIST MEASURES During the coming week several Centrist Cen-trist bills will come up Among them Monday will be a bill demanding that the Government take steps to provide against a coal famine and prepare measures restricting trusts and syndicates syndi-cates Wednesday Herr Liebers so called Tolerance bill Intended to give Catholics and other religious minorities mi-norities wider liberty of worship will be Introduced In the Reichstag and the Government will introduce the invalid In-valid pensioners bill which Increases the pensions from 40 to 70 per cent of the younger army officers to an even 100 marks per month |