The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-13
to know how the Emperor viewed Eng

to know how the Emperor viewed Eng
lands warlike demonstrations.
In these circumstances Prince Hohen-
lone, having nothing to conceal, could
reply frankly that the whole matter was a
question between Germany and England
alone, and it is not deemed possible that
the Chancellor could have given such
assurances while German diplomacy was
seeking to form coalition of European
powers against England. The story of the
attempt TO form a European coalition
originated in England, and ought now to
be knocked in the head
Germany has not sought nor does she
seek any active allies in her endeavor to
check English encroachments in the
Iransvaal endangering Germans and Ger
man investments there and III Delagoa
Bay. 1t is not a question that ought to
disturb the peace of Europe or to cause
any European power TO intervene, except
those concerned in the recent Hinterland
conventions.
The Government here has not sug-
gested any European conference, but the
envoy of the Transvaal Republic, DIR.
Beerlaerts Won Blokland, while in Berlin,
spoke of such a conference as among pos
sible expedients.
The Boer Envoy has been in Paris con-
suling with the French Government in
regard to the situation in the Transvaal,
and if the troubles there become more ag-
gravated and England refuses the Beers a
just settlement, the result will be that the
Transvaal Government will make an APP
peal for conference of the powers to dis
Of no u-hn hut ie NJ
reason why Germany or France should
insist upon such conference.
This is the semi-otficial view of the stu
alton, but it obviously omits from calcula-
ton the results of England's rejecting the
offices of conference, and also England's
rejecting and declining to accept the view
taken by the Berlin Government that the
allied powers con posing the Dreibund
could not be affected, or that diplomatic
hostilities could and should be limited to
fixed areas.
It's significant, too, to find Prince Bis
marck. who is no friend to English pre-
tensions, warning the Berlin Government
through the Hamburger Nachrichten
against making external and internal
peace by the adoption of policy of ad-
venturous intervention. The Nachrichten
describes the task of the German Govern
ment as that of walking at great height
upon tightrope.
The operations on the Bourse during the
past week show that considerable atten-
ton has been directed to the excitement
prevailing in England with view of tax
ing every advantage of it, and the conse-
Quence has been that orders have been
quietly made to buy on any marked de-
cline in London. The operations of the
week have also disclosed strong reliance
in Berlin and Frankfort financial circles
upon the maintenance of peace.
Imperial loans, Prussian consols and
some bank stocks have declined, but the
decline is not sufficiently heavy to indi-
cate that there is any fear that tie country
is on the eve of war.
The Vossische Zeitung and the LokaI
Anzeiger are the only Berlin papers which
make any reference in their special London
dispatches to the London Telegraph story
ofan exchange of letters between Queen
Victoria and Emperor William in regard
to Germany's attitude in the Transvaal
disturbances. The story is generally dis
credited
The Hamburg Correspondent reasserts
that British suzerainty over the Transvaal
cannot be admitted, inasmuch as it ceased
in 1884.