Show ENGLAND I IS RfflIITRBADY There is But Little Apprehension Apprehen-sion of War However How-ever JOHN BULL IS CONFIDENT Ever Decision Made Regarded As a State Secret j rp rl However i is Keenly Perccivnd That the Sentiment Displayed by the German Government Has aFar a-Far Wider Bearing Than the Present Dispute in Transvaal Some Very Shameful History I LONDON Jan 12 Copyrighted 1896 by the Associated PressInterest in the Transvaal question in its immediate imme-diate bearings has revived to an appreciable ap-preciable extent while the incidental straining of relations between Great Britain and Germany which so completely com-pletely placed the Boers in the background back-ground of the picture for a time has in its turn receded but by no means disappeared There is little apprehension apprehen-sion of war with Germany over the present complication at least and the British public has a reassuring sense that if there is to be a war England is RIGHT READY FOR IT The prominent and efficient measures of the naval authorities and the formidable for-midable show of strength that is the result give John Bull a feeling of confidence i con-fidence There are no further explicit announcements of movements looking I to an alliance of the powers against England today S I Nevertheless it is keenly perceived by the public that the sentiment displayed dis-played by the German government has a far wider bearing than the present dispute in Transvaal and there are visions of future complications on questions of conflicting interest Yesterdays cabinet council and the meetings at the colonial office remain largely a subject of speculation and whatever decisions may have been taken are sed lously guarded AS STATE SECRETS and the greatest care taken to avoid publicity Mr William H Mercer private secretary sec-retary of Colonial Secretary Chamberlain Chamber-lain said tonight to a representative I of the Associated Press that the secretary secre-tary had no further telegrams to communicate I com-municate to the public The visit of I the Prince of Wales to the colonial i office on Saturday he said Just when I several directors of the Chartered South Africa company was there was partly I an accidental coincidence His royal highness called he said to show his interest and had made some kind remarks re-marks in recognition of Secretary Chamberlains labors This explanation is hardly likely to S satisfy the public in view of the repeated re-peated statements published that the directorship of the Duke of Fife husband hus-band of Princess Louise of Wales in the Chartered South Africa company is a subject of concern to the royal family especially to the queen I is understood the difficulty over the manner of the disposal of Dr Jamesons followers was settled on I Saturday the Transvaal government I simply stipulating that the rank and I I file of the Jameson expedition I SHOULD BE DEPORTED from South Africa According to the Transvaal law the punishment for treason is banishment and a large fine I is not believed here that President Krueger has demanded the abrogation OL the London convention which provides pro-vides for the suzerainty of Great Britain over the Transvaal as the price of sparing Dr Jamesons life A dispatch received from sources sympathetic with the Transvaal government gov-ernment in Johannesburg tonight assorts as-sorts the plot for Jamesons raid and the coincident uprising of the Uitland ers was the most shameful in history The blackest part of the plot the dispatch dis-patch asserts was the intention of the agents of the Chartered South Africa company to set loose the savages to invade in-vade the Transvaal from all points and to kill every white man I had been engaged that all over South Africa provisional stations should be erected on the lines of the route and the points had been fixed The object I was to destroy Pretoria and to present England with a fait accomplieux before be-fore any aid could reach them Sketches of Pretoria and of the Rand made byI I military men have it is said been siezed This story is denounced in London a a gross exaggeration TIE PAPER London Journals on the Crisis Now at Hand LONDON Jan 12The Berlin correspondent cor-respondent of the Times says The publicity given to the exchange of letters let-ters between the queen and the emperor em-peror is very unwelcome here I is regarded a an indiscreet attempt to make political capital in the English interest out of the family relations of the two courts The substance of the letters can only be a matter of surmise sur-mise The contents of the emperors letter may be inferred from the very conciliatory and reassuring words he addressed on the following day to the foreign representatives here on the occasion oc-casion of the funeral of Prince Alexander Alex-ander of Prussia when he emphasized the unabated friendliness of the English Eng-lish and German governments Briefly however i is too early to indulge in optimisms President Kruegers atti tude may be a better test of Germanys real attitude than professions of amity am-ity I President Krueger proves obdurate ob-durate it would be difficult to resist the conclusion that he has been allowed I to count on Germanys support I must not be forgotten that before Dr Jamesons coup the organ of the German Ger-man foreign office urged President Krueger to ignore the manifesto of the national union of Johannesburg Dr Jamesons ill sjtarred enterprise simply gave Germany an opportunity to shift her ground to a plausible condemnation condemna-tion of a breach of international law A dispatch to the Times from Vienna says that the German National as l sociation of America has telegraphed congratulations to President Krueger An editorial in the Times avs There is far too great a disposition in some quarters to assume that the Transvaal difficulty is ended I can only be truly said that the immediate danger of bloodshed has been averted but all the evils and terrors which made a disturbance in the Transvaal with or without Dr Jameson merely a question of time still remain unsettled unset-tled While President Krueger is releasing re-leasing Dr Jamesons men with one hand with the other he is throwing into prison the heads of all the English Eng-lish enterorisesin Johannesburg He cannot be allowed tQ transfer the charge of treason from armed invaders invad-ers to the heads of a population which never asked anything but a fair share and as he could have prevented Dr Jamesons raid by divulging what his preparations rove he knew he does not come to court with clean hands Whether as against Dr Jameson or against the Johannesburgers we should advise l concerned to hear Hon Cecil Rhodes befQre deciding unon the somewhat obscure and complicated com-plicated transactions tansactons I The Standard says We are enabled to state that President Krueger has I not demanded any changes in treaty stipulations I this were demanded England would resist We are authorized author-ized to declare that the emperors telegram tele-gram to President Krueger was almost al-most an expression of a feeling of momentarv irritation which has passed away leaving Germany and England < as friendlv G heretotore The Standard i should be remembered remem-bered stands nearer to the government than any paper in England A dispatch to the Standard from Berlin savs I is rumored that the Emnress Frederick has written to Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales explaining the emperors policy with the assurance that he had not the slightest intention to darken the evening of the Queens life by ar AngloGerman wa KREUGERS PROCLAMATION Cannot Submit to Unwarrantable Demands PRETORIA Jan 12A proclamation issued by President Krueger on Friday a brief mention of which was made that date in a dispatch from here on said that he long meditated an alteration alter-ation of the constitution but that he could not accede to demands de-mands He bad intended to submit to the next session of the volksraad a law granting a municipality to Johannesburg Johan-nesburg Dare I do so continued the proclamation procla-mation After what has happened maton wi give The answer myself I know there are thousands in Johannesburg Johan-nesburg whom I can with confidence entrust this Let the Johannesburgers make it possible fon the government to appear before the volksraad with the words forget and forgive The proclamation has created a profound pro-found impression AMERICAS SYMPATHY Cecil RJioiles Thlnlcs England Should Have It NEW YORK Jan 12The World will publish tiiefjfblfowins dispatch I from CecTl Rhodes under date ofCape Town January 12 The position is that within the Transvaal there are 70000 newcomers and an old population of 14000 With the development of the gold industry to a fuller extent the newcomers will event amount to 500000 in five years ually to a million probably more From time to time the position will be upset by the attempt of the new population popu-lation to claim common civil rights which eventually they certainly must do Statesmanship should give them some rights as the present state is impossible for the newcomers who own more than half the soil of the Transvaal Trans-vaal and ninetenths of the wealth of males outnumber I the country The new ber the old five to one and are composed com-posed largely of Americans including the principal mine managers England is the only great power in South Africa Af-rica She is now threatened with German Ger-man interference which she is bound to resent and resist In this she should have Americas sympathy Blood is thicker than water wa-ter Americans above all others insist in-sist on civil rights here at the Cape At the Transvaal all the mining men are American And yet we have the two English speaking nations almost on the Englsh verge of war about some barren land in South America whereas working in perfect harmony the peace of the world would be secured A GERMAN VIEW tess Stress of Feeling in Berlin Yesterday BERLIN Jan Copyrighted 1S96 I by the Associated PressThere is distinctly dis-tinctly less stress of feeling here today in regard to the international complication complica-tion growing out of the Transvaal crisis Mid the German press as a rule devote and less space to it than for some time The tone of the comment of the newspapers which means so much in tills land of jress censorship and inspired expressions in newspapers is rather more peaceable and there is less talk of active hostilities and more hope expressed of an unarmed settlement of the question at issue Expressions Ex-pressions of irritation at the British government gov-ernment and of rancor against the English Eng-lish people arc still more or less bitter however The Tageblatt today replies to the assertions sertions made yesterday in the Westminster Westmin-ster Gazette that Germanys attitude on the Armentlan question had alienated Great Britain and had driven it to accept an approachment with France The Westminster Gazette added that there was absolutely no intention on the part of Great Britain to enter the Franco Russian alliance any more than the drel bund but Great Britain had become it was hoped better friends with both wa France and Russia to which the Tage blatt replies So England h sought blat reples a point dappui In the drei hiherto Germany would not have noticed that had it not been for Englands ceaseless cease-less colonial Intrigues and the unjusti fiable abuse In the English press is proof fable this be Ger If nf OII TI nn Intimacv so jj auL ll Intmacv many ej i sihai England henceforth a the sunlight of her favor on the zweibund Russia and France The Hamburg correspondent declares that there Is no question o the abroga tion of the suzerainty of Great Britain over the Transvaal because the Transvaal Trans-vaal has not recognized the British suzerainty at any time since 1884 The Kolnische Wolks Zeitung says I Is high time that the British government should deny its responsibilities for the Times lies and abusive sayings about Germany Continued silence implies guilt The Deutsche Wochenblatt threatens that when the Egyptian question shall be revived the German press will unanimously unanim-ously side with France against England Passport Restrictions JOHANNESBURG Transvaal Saturday Satur-day Jan nThe passport restrictions which were imposed during the crisis have been removed and further com mandering has been stopped But the burghers a already under arms and have been ordered to remain in the vicinity of Johannesburg Dr Jameson and his officers are still at Pretoria where Sir Walter Hely Continued on page 2 |