Show AFFAIRS IKOLD OLD EUROPE Disclose a Less Hostile Tone in Public Opinion BALFOUR TO BRITONS ISE CONDITION IN TRANSVAAL TRANS-VAAL AGAINST HUMAX NATURE sanguine Thixt iCrncKcr Would Rec ogmizc the Iiuj ortanic ot Reform Re-form Tlicre Say the Dritlwh Government Concurred in the lonroe Doctrine Seventy Years AKO More Arrests ot Americans in the Transvaal LONDON Jan 15A J Balfour first lord of the treasury speaking at Manchester tonight said it was not inhuman In-human nature that the present condition con-dition of things in the Transvaal should continue Therefora he was sanguine that President Krueger vouid recognize the importance of giving giv-ing the long promised reforms of the constitution Whether it was called suzerainty or not there could be no mistake that we controlled the eternal eter-nal relations of the Transvaal and would admit no foreign interference and further he believed no foreign country was prepared to dispute that doctrine Having highly complimented Colonial Secretary Chamberlain he turned to Venezuela and said nobody here wanted want-ed to run contrary to the Monroe doctrine doc-trine In fact he continued if Venezuela Vene-zuela had offered herself for annexation annexa-tion to Great Britain any British statesman would decline such an honor hon-or Therefore he failed to understand what the quarrel was about I would be hard indeed if the common sense of the AngloSaxon race was unable to settle the dispute without recourse to war He did not believe there was a possibility cf war but there was never a moment In the history of the country coun-try when i possessed a better fightIng fight-Ing machine Mr Balfour asserted that the British government had heartily concurred in the Monroe doctrine seventy years ago and he believed i they were to ransack ran-sack England search the most private documents in the foreign office since then examine the ministers and the ordinary public or even the lunatics i would be impossible to find a single Individual wl o ever desired to see what could be called a forward policy pol-icy adopted by Great Britain either in North or South America LONDON Jan 15The Daily News and the Chronicle both Liberal Chronice commenting com-menting on Balfours speech complain he has proposed no solution of the Venezuelan trouble News Was ISvixtetl LONDON Jan 16The Berlin correspondent corre-spondent of the Times commenting upon up-on the way the news has been twisted there to the prejudice of England says Nothing has been more conspicuous and deplorable during the present cri sii than the total want of commonsense common-sense and even common fairness displayed dis-played by the German press especially the government organs There is an agitation afoot to obtain from the reichstag an immediate credit of 200 000000 marks for an increase In the na nay |