Germany Checking Press Attack On Us.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 28, 1912:
Newspapers' Tone More or Less Restrained in Discussing the Canal Act.
OPINION IS VERY BITTER
But It Is Believed the Anglo-American Dispute Will Benefit Germany — Paris Temps Supports England.
Special Cable to The New York Times.
    BERLIN, Aug. 27.— President Taft's signature of the Panama Canal bill has released a flood of German comment, still, however, more or less restrained, on America's disregard of her treaty obligations.
    There is no doubt whatever that, if the Kaiser's Government were not itself sitting on the lid, the people and Government of the United States would be treated to some expressions of German opinion which would make British comment a whisper by comparison.
    A point on which increasing stress will be laid in Germany is the ludicrous light in which the affair places America's vaunted enthusiasm for the arbitration of international disputes.
    The Vossische Zeitung strikes a new note in its editorial article, commenting almost glowingly on the "disruption of Anglo-American friendship." It asks ironically what has now become of Joseph Chamberlain's once cherished dream of an Anglo-Saxon alliance between Great Britain, Germany, and the United States. The Vossische Zeitung thinks the rift in the Anglo-American lute redounds to the benefit of the Fatherland, as the unity between the English-speaking countries has recently on more than one occasion been exploited against the German Empire.