Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1896-01-17
ENGLAND is ALL READY
If Germany Wants War She Can
Have Ii.
THE GERMAN PRESS IS SAUCY
sensational story About the Plot for
Jameson's Raid-To XIII Every
White Man.

London, Jan. 12.-1nterest in the
Transvaal question in its immediate
bearings has revived to an appreciable
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 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 public
has a reassuring sense that If there
is to be war, England is ready for It,
The prominent and efficient measures
of the naval authorities and the for
mldable show of strength that is the
result, give John Bull 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 1t is keenly perceived by
the public that the sentiment displayed
by the German government has a far
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, and
whatever decisions may have been TIA
ken are seduously guarded as state Sc
crets. and the greatest care taken to
avoid publicity.
William II. Mercer, private secretary
to the colonial secretary, Mr.. Chamber
N ba TO !, a
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
We're 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. hus
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 ovel
the manner of the disposal of Jameson.
| followers was settled on Saturday, thu
! Transvaal government simply stipulat
| ing that the rank and file of the expe
| dition should be deported from Soutf
| Africa.
According to the Transvaal law tn,
punishment for treason is banishmen
and large fine.
| 1t is not believed that Presiden
Kruger has demanded the abrogatioi
of the I-euuUu Nuus v1tiOn, s,iICn pro
vides for the suzerainty of Great Brit
ain over the Transyaal as the price o
sparing Jameson's life.
| A dispatch from sources sympathetic
with the Transvaal government in 10
hannesburg tonight asserts that tn
plot for Jameson's raid and the coinci
dent uprising of the Uitlanders was tn
most shameful in history. The blackes
part of the plot, the dispatch asserts
was the intention of the agents of tn
| Chartered South Africa Company to lie
loose the savages to invade the Trans
vaal from all points and to kill ever
white man. 1t had been engaged tina
all over South Africa provisional sta
lions should be erected on the lines G
route, and the points had been fixec
The object was to destroy Pretoria an
present England with a fait accomI
lieux before any aid could reach then
Sketches of Pretoria and of the Ran
made by military men have 1t is sait
been seized.
This story is denounced in London a
a gross exaggeration.