The herald., 1896-01-12

| support be got from all Germany shows
| that his hostile telegram expressed the
| feeling of his people. whose enmity to Eng
| land is spurred on by commercial rivalry
! all over the world, because England has
pre-empted the best countries everywhere.
| The colonial desire of the German people,
| though born only since the war of 1870, is
now the most passionate of all their aspira-
tons. Bismarck always opposed this CO.
| lonial idea, and his organ, the Hamburger
| Nachrichten, sounded the only really
| peaceful note among the German p ess
this week. Personally hostile to England
as the Iron Chancellor was. he appreciated
| the certain injury, with no compensation to
Germany, from conflict with her.
| If the story of the kaiser's paciflcatory
letter to the queen is true, we may consider
| that connected with Englands readiness
| for war, her immediate preparations and
/ the certain drefui consequences to Ger
| many, the kaiser has thought better of his
| first angry impulse and Is asking that by
cones be bygones.
Meanwhile, the American controversy
, is hardly spoken of here except for purely
academic discussion of a permanent court
of arbitration between the two countries.
The cabinet meeting could hardly con-
slider the Venezuelan question since the
presidents message is not yet formally be-
fore the government.
SERIOUS results LOOKED FOR
New YORK. Jan. 11.-A special to the
World from London says:
The news of the arrest of the reform COM
| mittee at Johannesburg promises more
seriously for the rebels within his own re-
public at the hands of stern old "Oom
Paul.
He can do with them by law and equity
as he likes. Jameson's band was largely
| composed of English guardsnen and other
officers on leave, but the Johannesburg
nrIaOnara "a CnDrrnQroial and miners
of no especial influence. One of them
is a famous young American, John
Hays Hammond, the consulting engineer
of the consolidated gold fields. he made
much reputation in California. His father,
Major Richard Hammond. was q leading
citizen of San Francisco. He was invited
to his present position at salary tlOOO
($oO00) a month and opportuni les to make
much money. He is represented to be
a man of great force. He married q Miss
Harris of Mississippi, and she and two
children are with him in South Africa.
GERMANY's GOSPEL OF HATE
New YoHK, Jan. 1.-THE Worlds
special cable from London says:
Mr.. Poultnsy Bigelow left New York in
the midst of the excitement occasioned by
the prospect of war between the United
when the news arrived that the Jameson
party had been destroyed by the Bosrs.
Being asked his opinion of events then and
of the outlook, he said:
"Gsrmany has been assiduously culti-
waiting the gospel Of hate, whose
in Germany. the officers, the
landlords and the government officials,
| have ceased to think for themselves. They
are trained in the school of passive obe-
dience, and have their political creed form
ulated by the newspapers edited in the Of
Ara ~f &b th0v
| the German emperor sent his telegram
| congratulsting the Beers on the massacre
| of Englishmen in the Transvaal, the Ger
man papers set up unanimous chorus OF
| derision at England, and gloried in the
news as though it had been Sedan or
Metz.''
| Mr.. Bgelow went to Germany as a rep
resentative of the state of New York to de-
| liver communication from the governor
| protesting against the practical prohibition
| of American insurance companies doing
| business in the empire. He had several
| interviews with the minister of the interior,
| in which he received every courtesy and at
| tention. He furnished the minister docu-
| ments showing he satisfactory condition
| proved by the examination of the compa-
| MES. with their own sworn proofs of hnan-
| cial condition, and communicated an offer
| of the companies to pay the expenses of a
Prussian commission to New York TO verify
| all the stat tements. The minister prom
ised to make an immediate and careful ih-
| quiry into the question.
| OFFICIAL CONFERENCES
LONDON, Jan. ll.-Count Won Hatzfeldt-
WIldeberg, German ambassador TO Eng
land, had a long conference with the Mar
| quis of Salisbury, the prime minister, after
The cabinet meeting. Baron de Courcel,
the French ambassador, called later. The
| Prince of Wales conferred with Mr.. Cham
berlaln for an hour this afternoon with a
view to determining the relations existing
between the Duke of Fife, husband of
Princess Louise of Wales. and the Chart
cred Bri ish South Africa company, of
which the duke is director. 1t was re-
Gently reported that Queen Victoria had
ordered the Duke of Fife to resign his
directorships but this was denied by him.
The correspondence with Emperor Will
liam was also subject under discussion.
Considerable importance is attached to
this interview.