BRAZIL AND THE KAISER.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 902, 23 August 1910, Page 5

BRAZIL AND THE KAISER.

FRANCE MUCH ANNOYED. PRESIDENT APPOINTS GERMAN ARMY INSTRUCTORS. NEWSPAPER THREATS. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. August 22, 11.50 p.m.) London, August 22. ■ The Government of Brazil is appointing German instructors to train its military' forces. Tliis announcement has caused great dissatisfaction in Paris, as it was hoped that the French officers instructing tho troops in the State of San Paulo would have been invited to train the national forces. ' • ' . • The French newspapers' lay emphasis on the repeated advances which the Kaiser lias made to Marshal Hermes da Fonseca, the recently-elected President of Brazil. . - Marshal Fonseca's friendliness villi Germany has been frequently commented on; In 1,908 'he was invited to witness the German Army, manoeuvres in Alsace, and was treated as the Kaiser's guest. The Marshal, liowever, declined an invitation to attend the French manoeuvres of 1908. He has nevertheless accepted an invitation to be present at the German manoeuvres at Danzig in 1911.

The "Temps," the most important and influential journal in France, declares that the present incident will be remembered when Brazil next appeals' to the French money market, which has hitherto absorbed Brazilian securities to the value' of a hundred millions sterling.

The new President, whose election, was confirmed last month by the Brazilian Congress, had a majority of 87,000 votes in • tho popular election. The election of Marshal Fonseca was merely welcomed here (writes the Berlin correspondent of "The Times"),, but applauded as though.it were a German victory. The "North German Gazette"/ asserted that capital had been made out of Marshal Fonseca's friendliness towards Germany, and.rejoiced that a,large majority of the Brazilian people had proved that it. does not regard GermanOphile sentiments as a drawback. Tho "Cologne Gazette" goes much further.' In a malicious article which talks about the "arigry feelings of English politicians towards the new President," the journal actually says that Marshal Fonseca's chances: were assuredfrom the day in September, 1908, when he "brought back his lost popularity from, the German. Army manoeuvres. ' The distinction conferred upon Marshal Fonseca by the Emperor William-, and through him upon the Brazilian army and people,'made him, "since, the 1908, the most popular man in Brazil.