The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-01-13
THE TRANSVAAL Row.
A Less Warlike Feeling in Eng
land and Germany.
STATEMENT FROM CECIL RHODES.

Probably be Deported.
LONDON, Jan. 10 Interest in the Trans
vaal question in its immediate bearings
has revived to an appreciable extent while
the incidental straining of relations be-
tween Great Britain and Germany, which
SO completely placed the Beers in the back
ground of the picture for a time, has in
It's turn receded, but by no means disap-
peared. There is little apprehension of
war with Germany, over the present COM
plication at least and the British public
has a reassuring sense that if there is to
be a war England is right ready for it.
The prompt and efficient measures Of the
naval authorities and the formidable show
of strength tha is the result, gives John
Bull "a feeling of confidence.
There are no further explicit announce
ments of movement looking to an al
lance of the powers against England.
Nevertheless it is keenly perceived by the
public that the sentiment displayed by the
German government has far wider bear
ing than the present dispute in the Trans
vaal, and there are visions of future com.
plications on questions of conflicting in
terests.
Saturdays cabinet councils remains
largely subject of speculation, and what
ever decisions may have been taken are
sedulously guarded as state secrets, and
the greatest care taken to avoid publicity.
Mr. William H, Mercer, private secre-
tary to Colonial Secretary Chamberlain,
said last night to II representative Of the
Associated Press that the secretary had
no further kilograms to communicate TO
the public which had been received from
South Africa The visit of the Prince of
Wales to the colonial Office on Saturday,
he said, just when several of the directors
of the Chartered South Africa company
were there, was purely an accidental coin
cidence. His royal highness called, he said,
to show his interest, and had made some
kind remarks in recognition of Secretary
Chamberlain labors.
This explanation is hardly likely to sat
isfy the public, in view of the repeated
statements published that the director
ship of the Duke of Fife, husband of Prin
cess Louise of Wales, in the Chartered
South Africa company, is a subject of con
Germ to che royal family, and especially to
the queen.
1T is understood that the difficulty over
the manner of disposal of DIR. Jamesons
followers was settled on Saturday. the
Transvaal government simply stipulating
that the rank and file of the Jameson ex-
pedition should be deported from South
Africa. According to the Transvaal law,
the punishment for treason is banishment
and u large fine. 1t is now believed here
that President Kruger has demanded the
abrogation OF the London convention,
which provides for the suzerainty of Great
Britain over the Transvaal, as the price of
sparing DIR. Jameson's life.
A dispatch received from sources sympa-
thetic with the Transvaal government in
Johannesburg asserts that the plot for DR.
Jameson's raid and the coincideDt upris
ing of the subsequent uprising of the Uit.
landers was the most shameful in history
The blacklist part of the plot the dispatch
asserts, was the intention of the agents of
the Chartered South Africa company to
set loose the savages to invade the Trans
vaal from all points and to kill every
white man. Ii had been arranged that all
over South Africa provision stations
should be erected on the lines of the route,
and the points had been fixed The object
| was TO destroy Pretoria and to present
! England with fait accompli before any
interference could reach them. Sketches
Of Pretoria and of the Rand made by mil
itary men have, it is said, been seized
The story is denounced in London as a
gross exaggeration, and it is regarded as
being intended to prejudice the South
Africa company in the negotiations it is
making.
A dispatch received by the Chartered
South Africa company from Buluwayo
announces that the outcome of q mass
meeting of the English colony, bankers
and merchants, there was the declaration
of unanimous desire to obey the imperial
government. The public, it was asserted,
was fully under control
A dispatch to The Times from Johan-
nesburg says that the correspondent there
believes that the number of arms is over
rated. Had there been 10000, ms was be-
lieved," the dispatch continues, sit is i'm
possible TO suppose that Johannesburg
would have capiUulated 1t is more prob
able that concessions will be granted tC
the Uitlanders by spontaneous act of the
government than by formal agreement"
A Pretoria dispatch to The Times also
declares the real fact to be that there are
only 2 100 rifles and three Maxim guns at
Johannesburg
A Pretoria dispatch says: The rank anC
file of the prisoners who composed DR.
Jameson's raiding party have started fol
NdIdl, lJf' Jameson ana MS officers re
main here but it is expected that they
will leave shortly for deportation to Eng
land.
A large safe which was consigned to one
Farrar one of the imprisoned Rand lead
ers, was opened by the customs officer,
and was found to contain 100 revolvers anC
, 1000 rounds of cartridges,
A review was held ON Saturday at Kru
gersdorp of 5000 burghers who have beer
In the field. They We're shown TO be a fin,
e force well mounted and armed, and in an
4 animated state of mind. There is "A stront
feeling against the Uitlanders, but it is be
lieyed that the burghers will be disbanded
Mr.. Lefty, the correspondent of Reuter-
News Agency, who was arrested at Johan
J nesburg, as previously reported in the dis
3 patches of the Associated Press, has beel
9 liberated. He says that the Beers treaties
!, him with the greatest courtesy during tn
' time of his incarceration.
GERMAN PRESS CRITICISMS.
. While Severely Scoring English Paper
: They Breathe Peaceful Sentiments.
2. BERLIN, Jan. 13.--Thero is distinctly LEI