| Show HE BE QUIETER no prospects of a conflict at this time BUT BOTH A ARE R E READY FOR IT 0 the Vit landers of tho the land band given until tills this afternoon to throw down their arms boers surround johannesburg russia and franco france are against england want william fired new york jan 10 A dispatch to the world aroya london sais saas no I 1 influential n fluent ial person in england believes there Is any danger of war with germany in tile the near future authentic advices advises from berlin are un unanimous an imong that no influential person there tharo believes circumstances will arise in the near future to provoke war with ith en ingland 9 but there Is no int intelligent ell igent person in england who does not recognize that the kaiser Is prepared to provoke a war in case of further aggressions 9 gres ress lons by england in south africa and that indeed ho he Is in the temper to quarrel with england on almost any valid occasion offered him and england Is in the mood to accept tho the kassera Kal sera sers challenge whenever it comes there seems lio however Niever no probability ot of any immediate rupture because the english government much against its will has been forced by circumstances to take action in south africa w which removes every sh shadow adow of opportunity for complaint by germany or any other nation other circumstances may arise next in month anth or next year which will give the I 1 kaiser alser his coveted chance and in tho the meantime his present physical aliment ailment or mental spleen Is not changed for tho the better but there Is no apparent prospect of those circumstances just now colonial secretary chamberlain has played his cards admirably land and president krueger crucs cr of 0 tho the Tram transvaal sveal has rather played his into mr chamberlains hands the queens message to krueger today to Is the final tru trump mp eard car d there has been no mincing ot of words in the tory and the liberal press pres a alike in regard record to THE ENTIRE READINESS HEADINESS of great britain to enter upon acon a conflict whenever william rives gives the word within W I 1 thin forty eight hours afterward it Is certain that his baltic sea neet fleet would be bottled up there by an aa overwhelming wh elming britlon naval force at the mouth ot of the elbe and at the entrance of the maj gen Il elleott llott has divulged what gen count von blumenthal stated to him was the plan of invasion agre agreed e d upon in the department ot ar the berlin war office G germans armans were to march men through tran transports 8 for passage across and capt capture ure london in a day or two after field marshal marsh al von joitke used to say he know knew n nine lne ways of invading england but not one of getting out again since then En glands navy ha has 8 been strengthened to such a point that no foreign army could possibly hope to get acro across ss the channel tho the interest and importance of it fill all tor for amer americans IC an 3 Is 11 g great re af in spite ot of the praise praiseworthy w orthy efforts of 0 the london chron chronicle icle and other liberal newspapers aided by v a committee under the chairmanship of 0 sir john lubbock a liberal unionist member of parliament tor for securing arbitration in the venezuela question your correspondent has been notified from berlin that president krueger appealed by cable simultaneously to germany and TO THE UNITED STATES at the time of the first news of jome jame sons raid ills rues message sage to the president of the united states asked tor for the moral support of if the great american republic against ahat w hat he regarded as a british p plot I 1 ot to subvert tho the independence next of the south african republic the next day after tho the alleged dispatch of this message to president cleveland ambassador bayard called at the tha foreign office hei c e possibly lio to make representations to lord salisbury y upon the basis of president egers appeal the impression Is universal in well informed circles here that the invasion of the transvaal was indeed a plot of cecil rhodes with the nit ultimate imato object of 0 the establishment t of 0 a general south african republic find and that it failed because ability b clity has been overestimated or beca because u ae his rep resented collapse at the critical moment la Is true A formal inquiry seems now eer certain lain |
