Berlin, 17th August.
Since the funeral of the Dowager Empress Frederick this has been Field-Mar-1 Count: von Buclow's weak. Tame-lately after the interment of the remains chorus of criticisms of von Waldersee broke forth in the press, owing to his speech at Hanover, ete. Papers of the most different shades are weary of von Waldersee's talkativeness, which is regarded as not only in bad taste, in the allusion to other nations whose "names paled in China," but as magnifying the China campaign far beyond its actual importance. It is a curious fact that many papers are discussing which nation von Waldersee meant as the one whose name paled. They agree that it could only have meant Great Britain. Indeed, the reference is regarded as being so direct as to be impolitic. The Anglophobe papers, however, rejoice that
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