The herald., 1896-01-10

the state of Bermudes, while not directly
on the Caribbean sea, is only a few miles
distant from the water, has a port OF Its
own called Guznan Banco. and is a good
rendezvous for revolutionary bands. Ii es-
capes should be cut off by sea, the insur-
rectionists would sill have the mountain
GUS region to the eastward in which to find
a refuge, should they he overpowered. The
government has already sent many troops
to Bermudes, and is rapidly enrolling all
citizens in the national guard who are fit
for service in the field; IL 600 men have
thus far been enlisted.
NO ACTION TAKEN
NEW YORK, Jan. 9.-J. r. Roosevelt, Sec
retary of the United States embassy at
London, in an interview last night said:
''The American legation at London has
had nothing to do with the Venezuelan
question since Secretary Oiney sent his
note last summer to the British ambsssa-
dor. l cannot say anything officially about
it on account of my position. hut | am
feeling quite happy over lhe 81 iuation. l
have no fears of the unhappy termination
of the difficulty. II will be settled in some
way, how don't just know, but it will be
settled peaceably.
HOPES OF ENTANGLEMENT
LONDON, Jan. "a letter from Caracas
to the Times says that is the present inten-
ton of President Crespo not to give any
satisfaction for the Uruan incident and
that he is determined to combine the
Uruan and frontier questions regarding
them as one dispute.
The Times correspondent adds that this
is direc ly contrary to President Crespo's
previous assurances to him, and he recites
at length how the change was brought
about by President CleveIand's message to
congress and arrives at the conclusion that
by hook or by crook President Crespo and
his friends hope to entangle the United
States. and they will not leave stone un-
turned to accomplish this end.
NO DANGER OF WAR
New YORK, Jan. 1O.-A dispatch to the
World from London says: No influential
person in England believes there is any
danger of war with Germany in the near
future. Authentic advces from Berlin are
unanimous that no influential person there
believes circumstances will arise in the
near future to provoke war with England.
But there is no intelligent person in Eng
land who does not recognize that the
kaiser is prepared to provoke war in case
of further ageressions by England in South
Africa, and that, indeed, he is in
the temper to quarrel with England on
almost any valid occasion offered him.
And England is in the mood to accept the
kaiser's challenge whenever it comes.
There seems, however, no probability of
any immediate rupture, because the Eng
lish government, much against its will, has
been forced by circumstances to take
action in South Africa which removes every
shadow of opportunity for complaint by
Germany or any other nation.
Other circumstances may arise next
month or next year which will give the
kaiser his coveted chance, and in the mean
time his present physical ailment or men
tai spleen is not changed for the better.
But there is no apparent prospect of these
circumstances just now.
colonial Secretary Chamberlain has
played his cards admirably and President
Kruger of the Transvaal has rather play
ed his into Mr.. ChamberlaiE's hands. The
queens message TO Krueger today is the
final trump card.
There has been no mincing of words in
the Tory and the Liberal press alike in re-
gard to the entire readiness of Great
Britain to enter upon n conflict whenever
William gives the word.
Within forty-eight hours afterward it is
certain that his Baltic sea feet will be
bottled up there by an overwhelming
British naval force at the mouth of the
Elbe and at the entrance of the Kattegat.
Major General Elliott has divuIged what
General Count Won Blumenthal stated to
him, that the Salisbury maneuvers were
the plan of invasion agreed upon in the
strategical department of the Berlin war
Office.
The Germans were to march 900
men through transports for passage across
and capture London in a day or two after.
Field Marshal Won McltlSe used to say he
knew nine ways of invading England, but
not one of getting out again. Since then
Englands navy has been strengthened to
such All extent that no foreign army could
possibly hope TO get across the channel.
The interest and importance of it all for
Americans is great, in spite of the praise
worthy efforts of the London Chronicle
and other Liberal newspapers, aided by a
committee under the craftsmanship of Sir
John Lubbock, Liberal UEionist member
OF parliament for securing arbitration in
the Venezuelan question.
Your correspondent has been notified
from Berlin that President krueger APP
pealed by cable simultaneously to Ger.
many and to the United States at the time
of the first news of Jameson's raid. His
message to the president of the United
States asked for the moral support of the
great American republic against what he
regarded as a British plot to subvert the
Independence OF the South African re-
public.
The next day after the alleged dispatch
of this message to President Cleveland
Ambassador Bayard called at the foreign
Office here, possibly TO make represents 'iGn
10 Lord Salisbury upon the basis of Presi.
dent Krueger's appeal.
The impression is universal in well in.
formed circles here that the invasion CT
the Transvaal was indeed plct of Cecil
Rhodes, with the ultimate object Of the
establishment of a general south African
republic, and that it failed bee 4une
Rhodes ability has been overestimated
or because his represented collapse at the
| critical moment is true. A formal official
inquiry seems now certain.