The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-06
GERMANY To KEEP HER GOLD
HER BANKERS WOULDN'T HAVE TO
SHIP MUCH FOR BONDS.

Refuses to Recognize the Monroe
Doctrine-Germany 10 Insist on the
Independence of the BOers.
Berlin Jan. 5-Financlal interest con-
tinues to be centered in the prospects
of the issuance of an American loan. The
bourses here and in Frankfort absorb
the hest of the American stocks. which
are still being offered for sale in Lon
don, but the leading operators show
greater disposition to await the definite
announcement of a bond issue. The lat
est communications from New York leave
the situation so uncertain that neither
the financial houses nor the operators
on the bOurses can advise inquirers. The
/ correspondent of the United Press i'm
/ Frankfort states that American fnan-
| ciers have sounded the bankers there as
TO whether a per cent coin loan could
| be placed at about par. To these in
quiries the bankers replied that pure coin
bonds could not be placed in Germany
even at per cent. but that per cent.
gold bonds might be placed if they were
issued at a price slightly under par. 4
Berlin fnancier connected with the
Deutsche Bank group says the group
which is making the offer to the Nor
bond issue has an amount of gold al
ready in the United States sufficient to
prevent large shipments of gold from
Germany. on every side the feeling is
that things will go slowly until President
| Cleveland acts in the bond matter.
The German group proposing to take
! the new American loan held a meeting
in the office of the Deutsch Bank on Sat
/ urday and will hold another meeting on
| Monday, when IL is expected they will
/ definitely arrange a deal with the Lon
| don firms to cooperate IN securing gold
| to the amount of $25 000000, with the
option of securing an additional S25000,00O
/ II it should be required. 1t is understood
/ that IN New YORK number OF German
| houses are desirous of sharing in the
| operations of the group.
| Advices received here from ST. Peters
| burg says that Mr., Dewitte the Russian
/ minister of finance has definitely denied
| that Russia has offered to the United
| States the cash advances referred 10 in
| the story recently published in a St
| Petersburg dispatch to the Tageblatt, a
/ story which nobody credited. Another
/ story comes from St Petersburg alleg-
| ing that Prince Labanoff- -Rostovsky, the
| Russian minister of foreign affairs, has de-
clared with all possible feelings of good
| VIII toward the United States that the
| czdr would never recognize the Monroe
| doctrine and in regard thereto had taken
| a position similar to that assumed by Ger
/ many and England. This story has not
1
! Sir +. G. Lascelles, the British ambas-
| sador to Germany, has of late had daily
interviews with the chancellor. Prince
! HohenlOhe and these conferences have
/ led to much calmer tone in official cir
| cles and in articles published i'm the semi
! official newspapers
The violent tone displayed by the Eng
| lish press, especially in their TRADES
| against the kaiser does not agree with the
| character of the communications received
at the foreign office from Lord Salisbury,
/ foreign
! his innocence of all knowledge of the plans
| of the chartered South African Company,
! and declares the determination of Great
| Britain to act strictly in accordance with
! the terms of the Transvaal treaties con-
/ cluded in 1881 and in 1884 If Lord Sails
| bury intends to demonstrate against the
| cOngratulatory message cabled TO Presi-
| dent Kruger by the kaiser he is obviously
] taking his time to ponder over the man
| ner in which he will do ii, as so far moth
! ing has been heard at the foreign office
| as to how the government of Great
| Britain will treat with what the English
press calls a deadly insult which justifies
| war Nothing appears likely to cause any
/ alteration in the attitude of Germany in
respect to her resolve to support the
| TransVaal republic in declaring the con-
/ VentiOn of 1884 void and thus enabling the
| Beers to obtain their independence of
1 England The contention of Germany is
| that the convention of 1884 must lapse and
! that the new relations of England with
| the Transvaal must give the latter tho
| right to direct and uncontrolled inter-
/ course with Inc OlnSr powers.
The United Press obtained last even
| ing an interview with DR.. Leyd, the sec
/ retary of state of the South African re-
| public who is now in Berlin. it was
/ the chartered South African Company and
/ the Rhodes and the Barnato groups, he
/ said that provoked revolution in the
| Transvaai aiming to overthrow President
/ Kruger and replace him with creature
/ of Cecil Rhodes. and then through the
/ agency of the new presidency annex the
| Transvaal to the Cape Colony The move
"a ter KrTft r.
/ ing the markets into disorder and ac-
/ quiring good stocks at the lowest figures.
! The Beers, DR.. Leyd said, treat the pris-
/ oners they captured in the battle with
/ DIR. Jameson and his followers humane
| ly despite the fact that they were brig
| ands, and that the Beers were aware
that the men had been secretly armed
Or. Leyd hopes he win be able to OBJ
/ tain an audience with the emperor. As
/ yet he has only been able to see the
! foreign secretary. The authorities at the
/ foreign Office deny that the Transvaal
! government has asked Germany to as
/ sumo a protectorate over the South At
| rican republic.
/ Africa but she nevertheless supports the
/ idea of Germanys intervention in the
! Transvaal. The Vienna newspapers ac-
I quiesce in expressing hope that the pow
ers will take advantage of the present
! chance to curb English encroachments.
| Under the presidency of Duke Al
| brecht of Mecklenburg, committees are
| being formed IN Bernn, Hamburg ana
| other German cities for the purpose of
! collecting funds for the relief of the Boer
/ families who are suffering as the re-
| suit of the warlike operations in the
! Transvaal. Already $4,000 sterling has
/ been subscribed.
| The court will leave Potsdam on Jan.
| II for the Schoss in Berlin The court
season will then open and last seven
weeks. the imperial family leaving on
! Feb. q for Abbazia. The New Years
/ functions were devoid Of any special fea-
lures There was a heavy snowstorm on
/ the previous night. and the cafes were
/ All closed by II o'clock. A strong police
/ force was ABROAD and prevented the old
/ time noisy demonstrations. No horse
pIav was allowed. as formerly. and the
/ people who were about at midnight quiz
! etly exchanged "Prosit Neujhar," and
4 passed on. The consequence was that
! there were fever arrests than has ever
! been known upon a similar occasion. The
| kaiser's New Year reception was also de-
| void of interest. Talking with the am
/ bassadors who called upon him, the en-
/ neror made no reference to politics and
| confined his conversation to social top
/ les.