Show GRAVITY OF THE situation england and germany on the bagged bagg ed edge of war new york jan 8 A dispatch to th the boumal bout nal front from london says saya the government gag la Is on the news newa from cape town meantime the most moat set lous condition Is im nemer neater homo home lowland england and mony ate aio on tho th ragged edge of war u ar 1110 coi respondent correspondent cabled yester yeater da ilai that it was impossible to believe tile the cumor that emperor william had bad told lc iaan ds a general of the Trana vaai ill that t ho he meant to send bend a german minis tel to johannesburg ads told this to a reporter report cr yesterday yeste iday and now he ha ha has maid hold to another news man at berr ber 11 alln n that the emperor told him he would i it cognize tile tho complete independence of tile tho transvaal lians vaal the editors in chief of all the leading london papers were sent gent for by byar mr chamberlain and closeted with him foi some borne time after which he went to tip the isle of wight to see eee the queen A glance at the chronicle revealed the fact that war with germany la ito believed to be close at ac hand and that the gov ei ciment has decided to apprise the nation that it la Is facing a crlson no such euch voids woj do have been read and no such tone used in english newspaper it in many a a time tho the editor of tile the chronicle under the of the colonial office starts his big leader thus WARLIKE tho the patience pat lenco and good sense of english people stand today in need of rein fol cement we observe a hasty not tp t y a a panic ats ilcken et icken call for the immediate summoning of the defensive foicey of the empire we assume that they th cy will be ready we expect they will be adequate we hope that their employment will not be advertised lit n tile tho spirit of a vulgar and timo rou peace Is one of the greatest requisites to british Interi tf and 1 dime all peace with america am rl la not an aln interest it Is I 1 3 a lafirst farat condition of honorable lle lice tor for both peoples 11 I 1 ulle he editorial goes on to say that no dispute between england and america however embittered should be allowed to to tile the extremity of war tile the leader is ie a column long and all of it Is directed to america then comes the treatment of the german subject in a second editorial it be the tension Is in so extreme at the present nt moment that every man in thye thase islands should feel resting on him a hem y responsibility the editor quotes quota the vital clause of tile the contention mth the transvaal Tra in I 1 1814 enforcing suzerainty over that tov and adds no language earl can be plainer and we have simply to in fonn folin the german emperor we bide by that lans unee as completely as N we a do d by our intention to respect tho the lib city arid and independence of the south african republic sir edward arnold begins hla his leader in these characteristic words I 1 it in fig riot not enough in these days to have merely I 1 y a just cause justice englishmen are 1 aln ain fully discovering must wear tho the panoply pallo ply of strength and we are the therefore r afore gar glad I 1 to announce that her majesty a government to Is confident in the correctness of their action in the matter of the transvaal and resolute to maintain th rights of the tha queen it has haa directed naval and military measures to be taken which will put anything like a surprise or a denancy de flanco in south africa as altogether almog ather out or of tho the question 11 |