The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1891-04-24

territories in connection with which the
British and Portuguese authorities are now
engaged in several disputes. This project,
the telegram added. if carried out. would
affect Manica territory claimed by Eng
land and Portugal. Since that time the
Lisbon government has received intima-
tion through the public press and through
official channels that the Portuguese gov
eminent was apparently counting the visit
of British fleet to Lisbon. Lord Sails
bury is understood to have instructed Sir
George Giynn Petre. the British embas-
sador at Lisbon. to call the attention OF
the Lisbon government to the reported
Boer expedition. TO the detention of the
Sir John Willoughby expedition and TO
other and similar matters which
have caused the relations between
Great Britain and Portugal to
sumo q dangerously strained aspect. Lord
Salisbury was not content with entering a
protest against the reported expedition of
the Beers. The British Premier. through
the Foreign Office. promptly communicated
with Sir Henry Brougham Loeb. the Gov
ernor. British high commissioners and COM
mander-ln-chief of Cape Colony. with the
result that the latter, with equal promptness,
placed himself In communication with the
President of the Transvaal, Paul Kruger
The substance of the British Governors
Communication to the President of the
Beers was that the projected Boer "teck'
into Newfoundland, If made with the view
of establishing new republic, would be
treated as an act of hostility to her majesty,
the Queen of England.
To this distinct declaration President
Kruger has just replied. He says that he
has dampened the proposed "teckr and
that. ir addition. he has sent messages to
the prominent Beers who are suspected of
having been the leaders of the movement,
with the determination to still more clearly
impress upon them the necessity OF not
taking any action which might lead to
complications between the government of
the Transvaal and the government or
Great Britain. On the other hand, it is
understood thatthe Portuguese government
has assured the British government that
Portugal has not in any way countenanced
the projected raid of the Beers. and should
the Beers obey the injunctions of their
President this incident. which threatened
to have blown over. The Beers however,
are q very crcfty race, and their proximity
to and meddling with the territory about
which Portugal and Great Britain are dis
putting may yet lead to dangerous cOmpll-
cations.
Portuguese officials claim that the stop
page of the Willoughby expedition was
not q breach of the modus vivendi with
England. because. owing to the British at
titude at Masslkesse, q state of siege had
been declared. A Portuguese newspaper,
in an article on the Pung We river Incl
dent. urges the government to conclude
treaty , with Englsnd quickly, good or bad bad.
Other papers make similar recommends
tions. and well-nformed people in high po-
sitions expect that o treaty will be signed
before the modus vivendi expires, and that
there will be time for orders to reach Fort
Salisbury which will prevent q conflict at
Massikesse. Sir George Glynn Petre, the
English minister at Lisbon, is i'll in bed,
the strain of the negotiations having been
too much for him.
In the House of Lords, to-day. Lord Sails
bury said that the English had been treated
by the Portuguese IN a manner not consist
ent with the engagements entered into by
Portugal. The demeanor of the Portu-
euese officers in Africa corresponded so
little with the assurances sent from Lisbon
British war ships to tho entrance of the
Pungwe river. (Cheers.l He said that the
war ships proceeding to the Pungwe river
were not large. but would suffice for the
purpose. The Porting uese minister having
intimated that his government had ordered
the removal of obstacles to the passage of
the river, it was proposed to appoint q con-
sui to sec that the modus vivendl was OBJ
served.
It 10 believed here that q hostile en-
counter has taken place between the
Portuguese and the British south Africa
Conn in Manicaland. The latest dis
patches from the Cape represent the CON-
psny as obstIDately holding to evrey point
of advance and preparing to repulse the
Portuguese by force. Further information
isanxiously awaited, although no apprehen-
sion is felt as to the result, for the pioneers
IN the service of the British South Africa
Company are mostly young men full of
with the Portuguese would be An agreeable