Show s M o NSIIN VESTED German Interests in ShanTung S Shan-Tung Are Very Large SOVON BUELOIV DECLARES Chancellor Replies to t Prince Bis y marchs Criticisms of the Tormi or s Speech on German Investment In siaHo Declared That the Center of Gravity of Germanys Policy Remained In Europe and He Had Ho Intention of Allowing It to Be Displaced J Berlin March 19fl the course of the debate In the Reichstag today on the third reading of the budget replying reply-ing to Prince Bismarcks criticisms of Count von Buelows recent speech that the Cbanccltov Insisted too attach1 on Germanys Interests in Manchuria and that Germanys Interests ivould have suffered even If Kajo CJiou haii not been leased Count von Buclow said Germany had the greatest Interest In preventing friction between the pow fcrs negotiating in China Moreovor ln eastern Asia Germany hrfd many n tcrcsts to safeguard In Shan Tung province she had i millions invested Above all Germany lfadJlofnstet on idcquate cpmpensiftoh 1 jlng given for the murder of Baron von Kettelcr fhat was a question InAVhfclitHciliCinbr tof Germany was enjguged and Jn Vh1ch Bho had a vital Interest v MUST NOT BE tSUZ1RSIOOD I In the further courseof his the Chancellor said I have left no room for the slightest doubt It no German political interests exlsvjn Manchuria but at the sarnfc lime I Jiave stated that It must benccesgaclly our desire that China t shall not too seriously diminish her capacity for satisfying the Just claims of the poW crs for compensationThfsIsnot misunderstood mis-understood in any qnartQr i Two hours ago I received dispatch from St Petersburg according to Which Count Lamsdorff tho Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs has expressed hfs satisfaction to the German Ambassador Ambas-sador with my statementSin regard to tic Chinese question C GERMANY IS INTERESTED The Chancellor gave figures Illustrative Illustra-tive of the Importance of the commerce between Germany and East Asia amounting to SOCOOOOO marks A hundred hun-dred million marks are Invested in Shan Tung province Germany therefore there-fore has the greatest Interest In preventing pre-venting the Chinese trade from becoming be-coming the booty of a single power or several powers without our participation participa-tion Count von Buelow also declared that the center of gravity of Germanys policy remained In Europe and that ho had no Intention of allowing It to be displaced while protecting her Interests Inter-ests In Asia HONOR MUST BE VINDICATED Subsequently Prince Bismarck declared de-clared he had been misunderstood He really desired to assist the Chancellor It was obvious that German honor must be vindicated 1 The Chancellor jokingly thanked Prince Bismarck for the way he had supported him In his Chinese measure Students duel i AGREED TO PROPOSAL Later the House agreed to the proposal pro-posal of the budget committee to include in-clude In the next budget a credit for 20000 marks toward instituting Chambers of Commerce abroad al though Baron von Rlchthofen the Foreign Secretary deprecated this Institution In-stitution declaring that if the estimates esti-mates of such chambers in America would be of any appreciable value Great Britain would have long since established them After a long debate the House re jected the proposal of Herr Bcbol the Socialist leader for a bill whereby children born of house slaves 1n Get man colonal territory should be free The IIouso Accepted a proposal of Ilerr Groeber Centrist and Count von Orlola National Liberal that the Reichstag should consider the rela tions between masters and slaves with the view preparing for the liberation of the latter |