Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-05-04
KRUGER WINS.
His Diplomacy Too Clever for
Mr.. Chamberlain.
Germany is Delighted With Situation
and Hastens to Say So.
Duplicity Of British in Transvaal Shown U
Comments Of tho Press.

Berlin. May 3.-The latest advices
from Pretoria remove all official appre-
hension that there will be war between
the Transvaal republic and England.
| The feeling here is that President Kru-
gers diplomacy has rendered England
powerless to trespass upon the inde-
pendence of the Beers without out
raging the opinion OF the world and
justifying the powers in intervening.
Dr. Leydards. secretary of state OF
the Transvaal republic. who recently
spent some months in Germany, will
return to Berlin in July. in some new
official capacity, and Germany will
soon send an important diplomatic to
| Pretoria. and this will certainly be
done without asking the opinion of
England. The utterances of Mr.. Cham
berlain British secretary of state for
the colonies. against foreign interview
ton in the Transvaal. have made no
impression here. and will not in the
slightest degree affect Germany's
action.
The revelations just made in Pre-
ria, showing the duplicity of the Brit
ish officials, may have startled the Ger
man public. but have not surprised the
German government. whose commune
German foreign Office advised Of even
more than President Kruger has yet
chosen to publish.
The unanimous voice Of the press
strongly condemns Mr.. Chamberlain's
want of tact and the clumsy and arro-
giant style of his treatment of President
Kruger, whom Prince Bismarck de-
scrbed as the most astute diplomat he
ever met.
The remission by President Kruger
of the sentences of death pronounced
upon the leaders of the Johannesburg
reform committee. only found approval
here as having been dictated by pOliti-
cal prudence.
The National Zeitung in an article
on the subject says: IF the con-
demned men had been promptly ex-
ecuted, their fate would have been
partly due to Mr.. Chamberlain. whose
manner towards the Beers has forced
them to show that their rights deserve
equal consideration with those Of the
English
The Vossische Zeitung says:
Neither Great Britain nor the Char
tered South African Company had any
right to expect that the lives of the
condemned men would be spared. and
the convicts ought not to be pardOned.
Rather. in view of the comedy OF the
trial of DR.. jameson in London. the
government at Pretoria should deal
with them severely"
General Won Hahenke. chief OF the
Emperors military cabinet, had con-
ference with DR.. Kayser. director of the
colonial department of the foreign
office. Thursday, upon the proposal to
reinforce the troops in German South
west Africa, where there are at present
only so men, including officers. After
the conference between Gen. Won Ha-
henke and DR.. Kayser. Prince Won Ho-
henlohe. the imperial chancellor. dis
cussed the subject with the Emperor.
and it is understood that they reached
an agreement to send reinforcements to
German Southwest Africa at once.
The revolt of the tribes of Khavas
and Herrerros is spreading. Advices
received by the government from Major
Loutwein. the chief functionary in Ger
man Southwest Africa refer to the
general agitation of natives against
Europeans and ask that more troops
be Immediately sent him.