Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1896-01-18
If Germany Wants War She Can
Have It.
THE GERMAN PRESS is s. UCY
sensational story About the plot for
Jameson's Raid-TO Kill Every
White Man.

London, Jan. 12.-Interest in the
TransVaal question in it's immediate
bearings has revived to an appreciate
extent. while the incidental straining
of relations between Great Britain and
Germany, which SO completely placed
the Beers in the background of the pic
ture for a time, has in it's turn receded
but by no means disappeared.
There is little apprehension of war
with Germany over the present compli-
cation at least, and the British pubhc
has a reassuring sense that II there
is to be a war, England is ready Tor II.
The prominent and efficient measures
of the naval authorities and the Tor
midable show of strength that is the
result. give John Bull a feeling of conf
dence.
There are no farther explicit an
nouncements of movements looking TO
an alliance of the powers against Eng
land today.
Nevertheless it is keenly perceived by
the public that the sentiment displayed
by the German government has a lar
wider bearing than the present dispute
in Transvaal, and there are visions OF
future complications on questions OF
conflicting interests.
Yesterdays cabinet council and the
meetings at the colonial office remain
largely a secret of speculation, ana
whatever decisions may have been ia
ken are seduously guarded rs state Sc
crets, and the greatest care taken to
avoid publicity.
William II. Mercer, private secretary
to the colonial secretary Mr.. Chamber
lain, said tonight that the secretary had
no further kilograms to communicate
to the public. The visit of the prince
of Wales to the colonial office on Satur-
day, just when several directors of the
Chartered South African Company
were there, was partly an accidental
coincidence. His royal highness called,
he said, to show his interest, and had
made some kind remarks in recognition
of Secretary Chaberlain's labors.
This explanation is hardly likely to
satisfy the public, in view Of the re-
peated statements published that the
dictatorship of the duke OF Fife, nus
band of Princess Louise of Wales, in the
Chartered South African Company, is
a subject of concern to the royal family,
and especially to the queen.
1t is understood the difficulty over
the manner of the disposal of Jameson $
followers was settled on Saturday, the
Transvaal government simply supulat-
ing that the rank and file of the eXpe-
dition should be depOrted from South
Africa.
According to the TransVaal law the
punishment for treason is Punishment
and large fine.
1t is not believed that President
Kruger has demanded the abrogation
of the London convention, which pro-
vides for the suzerainty of Great Brit
ain over the Transvaal as the price of
sparing Jameson's life.
A dispatch from sources sympathetic
with the TransVaal government in Jo-
hannesburg tonight asserts that the
plot for Jameson's raid and the coinci-
dent uprising of the Uitlanders was the
most shameful in history. The blacklist
part of the plot, the dispatch asserts,
was the intention of the agents Of the
Chartered South Africa Company to let
loose the savages to invade the Trans
vaal from all points and to kill every
white man. 1t had been engaged that
all over South Africa provisional sta
tons should be erected on the lines OF
route, and the points had been fixed
The object was to destroy Pretoria anc
present England with a fait accomp
lieux before any aid could reach them
Sketches Of Pretoria and of the RanC
made by military men have, it is said
been seized.
This story is denounced in London as
a gross exaggeration.