Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-11
ENGLAND NOT INsULTEn.
Granville and Gladstone Predict
Settlement of the Flag Incident.

Granville and Gladstone Predict a
Settlement of the Flag Incident.
LONDON, March 10.-Newspapers here
regard the hauling down of the British
flag by the Germans at Victoria, the
English mission town on Ambas Bay, on
the west coast of Africa, and the substi-
tuition of German flag therefor, as due
TO an excess of zeal on the part of the
German officers. 1t is thought that GEL
many would be unlikely to recognize
such breach of public law.
GRANvILLE's HOPEFUL VIEW.
In the House of Lords this afternoon,
/ Earl Granville, Secretary of State for
| Foreign Affairs, in answering questions
respecting the reported hauling down of
| the flag, said that in the face of Prince
| Bismarck's assurances of Germany's
| friendship for England, he did not be-
lieye that the hauling down of the British
| colors. and the hOisting of the German
| nag as reported, were intended
as an insult to England, but was probably
| due to ignorance on the part of the Ger
man commander, who might have thought
| that Victoria was included in the recent
! English cession to Germany OF certain
| slices OF territory IN Cameroon's Land,
| on the representations of Count Herbert
Bismarck that they were necessary 20
Germany in order to make the German
colony i'll CamerOon's Land more COM
| pact.
In the House of Commons this after
noon Premier Gladstone, in speaking on
the same subject, said that if the report
was true complications were not likely to
arise, as the matter could be amIcably
adjusted by the governments concerned.
England will not ask any explanation
from Germany concerning the reported
hauling down of the British flag at Vic
toria, Ambas Bay, until the receipt of the
report upon the occurrence by Consul
White.
In the House of Commons this evening
Lord Edmund Fitzmaurice, Under
Foreign Secretary, stated that no copy
OF the dispatch Of May 3, 1884, which
Prince Bismarck read to Sir Edward
Mallet, the British Ambassador at Ber-
lin, as something he said that he had
sent to Earl Granville, the British Foreign
Minister, had ever been handed into the
British Foreign Office. a portion of such
dispatch had, however, been conf
dentially read to Earl Granville on
March /.
Count Won Munster to-day officially
informed Earl Granville that Germany
recognizes Victoria colony in West Africa
as British territory. He said that the
German Government had received no
confirmation of the hauling down of the
British flag and the substitution of the
German colors. Ii the report should be
confirmed Germany would hasten to disa-
VOW the agents action, and would make
any reparatiOn that might be necessary.
THE LACK OF CONFIRMATION.
In the House of Lords today. Earl
Granville, in replying to a question by
the Marquis of Salisbury. said that
neither the English nor the German Cabl-
net was aware that the British flag had
been hauled down by the Germans in
Victoria. From the principles of inter-
national comfy and Prince Bismarck's
action in connection with the
rumOred prOtectOrate in another
part of Africa, when he Immediately and
spontaneously made a contrary declara.
ton, Earl Granville said that he was
convinced that whatever might have hap
pened in Victoria it would lead to no gen
eral complications. The most friendly
negotiations, the speaker said, were at
present in progress between Germany and
England in regard to their respective
colonial interests.
Count Won Munster, the German Am
bassadOr to England. has communicated
to Earl Granville a dispatch from Prince
bismarck expressing satisfaction with
Earl GranYllle's recent statements in
Parliament.
CORRESPONDENT TO BE EXPELLED.
BERLIN, March 10.-It is rumored that
the Imperial Government Intends to expeI
from Germany the Berlin correspondent
OF the London Times because of the Of
1ensIve way in which he has treated the
Anglo-German Colonial controversy.
Emperor William has formally con-
graduated Prince Bismarck on the sue
cess of Count Herbert Bismarck KS mission
to England.