In his second speech, delivered on Wednesday in answer to
a speech by the spokesman of the Pan-Germans, Count von Billow reiterated still more emphatically his exclusive devotion to German interests, even denying that he would or could attend to moral considerations. He stated further that Mr. Kruger had been officially warned before he left Paris that the Emperor would not receive him, and that as he had still persisted " we declined to be taken by storm." Germany had just as much sympathy for Prince Alexander of Bulgaria as for Mr. Kruger, but subsequently perceived that the Government in resisting that sympathy was right. "I am Minister for Germany, not for Germany and Pre- toria." Count von Biilow even defended his Emperor's first telegram to Mr. Kruger, declaring that whether prudent or imprudent, it had revealed the fact that if Germany acted she would have to rely on her own strength only, Austria and Italy, it would seem, declining to expend lives and treasure to aggrandise Germany alone. The Minister of War in the same debate stated, we are glad to see, that the British Ministry had made no repre• sentations in regard to Mr. Kruger's tour, and that the German Government had advised Messrs. Krupp, of Essen, and a Rhenish company not to execute some English orders for artillery,—a bit of good news for the English mann. facturers.
