A GERMAN NATIONAL NEWSPAPER.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 11493, 28 January 1903, Page 7

A GERMAN NATIONAL NEWSPAPER.

News by the San Francisco moil, which arrived at Auckland yesterday, etatee that Prince Zuerstenberg, a relative of the Kaiser, and one of the richest men in Germany, is forming a syndicate of capitalists, statesmen, and professors, to found a great German national newspaper, whioh, without bearing the official hallmark, will become known throughout the world at large as the mouthpiece of German official opinion. The Kaiser and Imperial Government are cognisant of the plan, and approve of it. It is possible the Emperor himself will 'became financially interested in the enterprise. While Germany possesses many fine newspapers, it is realised, largely as a result of the scorn in which Bismarck 'held «'H journals, they have failed to acquire, especially in foreign' countries, the prestige which appertains to the editorial pages and news columns of the great papers of the United States and Great Britain. Germany has already envied the influence of (the London "Times," and it is proposed to copy that pamper in a large measure. WJoen the K&iaer wa 8 recently in England lie iLe&rned that the unbridled tone of the German. Press during the Eng-lish-Boer war was the chief cause of Great Britain's unwillingness to enter into closer relations with the Fatherland. The highest authorities in Berlin thus apparently oonciudted to establish a. journal the prestige of whioh should be so overshadowing that the intereste of the country would never be endangered by its editorials.