Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-09
A TRIPLE ALLIANCE
France and Russia Will Act With
Germany.
COMBINATION AGAINST ENGLAND
Feeling in London is Still
Bitter.
LESS HEARD OF WAR TALK

| from Berlin this afternoon says that Rus
sia's cooperation with Germany in the
| Transvaal matter has been assured and
| that France will act with Russia.
| This apparently tends to confirm the re-
port of an anti-British alliance ard that
the action of Emperor William toward the
| Boer republic was a thoroughly weighed
STEP
Outwardly, at least there is little, if any,
change in the political crisis between Great
Britain and Germany, brought about, it is
| asserted, by Emperor Williams support of
| the South African republic in face of the
| suzcrainty of Great Britain over the Trans
| vaal.
A dispatch from Berlin to the Times, pub
lshed this morning, said that it is ex-
| planned that Germany desired only to pro-
tect German residents and its consulate at
| Pretoria by dispatching an armed force
| from Delagoa bay, and that no arrange
| ment on the subject had previously been
| made with Portugal. This has tended to
| produce better feeling.
Demands of the Beers.
But this slight change for the better has
| been counteracted by the receipt of Spe-
cial dispatch today from Pretoria, saying
that the Beers demand the surrender Of all
British rights and suzerainty over the
|
bay and the canceling of the charter Of the
| British South Africa Company. 1t is fur
| ther stated that the Beers have arrested
! on charge of treason. eight leaders of the
| recent movement among the uitlanderS of
| johannesburg.
| These demands, if the dispatch is based
! on fact, coupled with the previously report
| ed demands of the Beers for the expulsion
| from Africa of Mr.. Cecil Rhodes, the pre-
| mier Of Cape Colony, and DIR. Jameson, who
| led the freebooters into the Transvaal, and
| the imposition of a very heavy fine upon
| the British Chartered Company the de-
mand for an indemnity of s. geo from
| Great Britain, or both, are not likely to
| be granted by the British government with
| out severe struggle.
At the foreign office this afternoon the
| dispatches saying that the Beers demand
ed the Punishment of Mr.. Rhodes from
| Africa and the abandonment of the rights
of Great Britain regarding the Transvaal
ard Detasoa bay were d;scredited on the
| ground that Sir Hercules Robinson, the
| governor of Cape Colony. in his dispatches
| to the colonial office has made no mention
Of any such demands or conditions. :
The opposition to the demands of the
Beers will mainly rest on the fact that it
| is generally admitted that they are insti-
gated, on the whole, by Emperor William,
and that they form part of studied op-
| position upon his majesty's part to the CO.
lonial policy of Great Britain in Africa
1t is admitted in some quarters, how
ever, that on the face Of things the South
manding an indemnity from Great Britain
| for the invasion of Beer territory, and there
| is general sentiment in favor Of dealing
severely with the British Chartered Com
pany, especially it is claimed in Pre-
| toria that the Transvaal authorities have
documentary evidence showing that the
| laid and uprising in Johannesburg were
| portions of a plot official or unofficial to
annex the Transvaal to British South
| Africa.
| But it is held here there is no justifi-
cation for demanding the expulsion of
| Mr.. Rhodes from South Africa or for the
surrender of British rights and suzerainty
| over the Transvaal or for the cancellation
| of the agreement made in 1891 between
Portugal and Great Britain, by which the
| latter country has the first right of pur-
chasing Delagoa bay should Portugal de-
sire to part with it.
Not Worried by War Talk.
The Berlin and Vienna newspapers re-
gard the warlike preparations of Great
| Britain as being Of little Importance, how
ever, and as being more in the nature of a
political move than a military undertaking
| so far as Germany is concerned, but the
! same periodicals take a more serious view
of the proposed Strengthening of the Brit
! ish forces in South Africa, which step is re-
garded as having in view possible ag-
| gressive action toward the South African
| republic
At the same time. it should be added, the
chances Of war between Great Britain and
Germany are looked upon as being remote
| and there is a decided tone of backdown in
the utteranceS of the German press toward
| Great Britain.
| The Pail Mall Gazette this afternoon says:
| Steps We're taken in the highest quarters
| to obtain, by family influence, full ex-
| communications which have passed have
done more than anything else to bring
about the change of tone in the German
official press toward Great Britain"
oto ont oh
| of tone, the Pail Mall Gazette remarks:
The German newspapers, official, semi
official and reptile, are tumbling over one
another in their anxiety to explain that
| the tension of relation was the fault of
England.
I'VE are now told it was no concerted ac-
| ton with the Transvaal and that the ex-
treme point of German interference would
| have been reached by the landing of a few
policemen at Delagoa bay to protect the
German Uitlanders, and that the emperor's
telegram was not meant Tor what 1t was
thought to mean.
These remarks and the better feeling re-
ferred to were however. before the receipt
| of the dispatch from Pretoria, announcing
| the extreme demands of the South African
republic for the surrender of all British
rights and suzerainty, ETC.. over the Trans
vaal and Delagoa bay, which has again
| changed the complexion of affairs.
Anti-German Feeling.
There is little or no abatement in the
anti-German feeling here. At meeting
| of the London Radical Federation today,
after many fierce speeches, a resolution
vas passed demanding the immediate re-
moval of the name of Emperor William
from the British army and navy lists.
A baseless report, which was received at
| the meeting, that the officers of the first
| dragons, in garrison at Dublin, of which
re giment the emperor was made honorary
| colonel by Queen Victoria, had burned his
| majesty in effigy, was greeted with loud
| and prolonged outbursts Of cheering and
| OTHER applause. The colonel of. the first
| dragon this afternoon telegraphed that
| there is absolutely no ground for this
story. .,>s=
| 1t is said, however, that before the re-
| ceipt of this official denial the German am
| bsissador, Count yon Observation-Disclosures,
made representations on the subject to the
| Marquis of Salisbury, asking to be inform
| ed as to the truth of the report.
A meeting Of German and Dutch social
| lists, held in Hyde Park last evening to
| cor gratulate President Kruger, was at
tscked by crowd Of Londoners. The plat
| form was demolished, and free fight en-
| sued, in the midst Of which the foreigners
| fled.