Birmingham state herald., 1896-03-01
LONDON CABLE LETTER The Cuban Resolution Criticised
 by the Press. CECIL RHODES WAS TRACKED He Left an Opening for the Boers to Get
 Seaport THE DEMONSTRATION OVER JAMESON Believed to Have Been Part of the Gov ernment Programme-The Attitude of tho Government Towarda Silver
 Open to Msinterpretation.
THE DEMONSTRATION OVER JAMESON

London Feb. 29.-The question is now being asked whether the demonstration attended the landing here of Dr. Jameson and his fellow raiders was a genuine out, burst of public feeling or whether it was not largely due to plans of the govern ment to excite the country against the Transvaal It would be of course diff cult to obtain tangible proof that the cabinet was resorting to the old trick of authorizing the use of provocative agents Some of the members of the present ministry are. however, pastmas- ters in the quiet game of arousing the country through the use of paid agents. If the course followed by the government in bringing Jameson home from Afica is reviewed, it will seem that everything was done to keep interest on the strain. The importance given the prisoners was far beyond their merits as figuring in re- cent events. Instead of wrapping the re- turn of the filibusters in mystery and having them sdetracked by press repre- sentatives from point to point, the gov ernment, if it had so desired, could have 1et the affair fizzle out quietly, and could have avoided all fuss in taking the pris- oners to the Bow street police court. The conservative papers pretend that the demonstration attending the arrival of the partyewill embarrass the government, tending to adversely affect the negotia- tionS with the Transvaal A more cor rect point of view is that the demonstra- tions were designed to support the gov erpment in it's impending attack on the Transvaal.
 The statement made in the house of commons last night by George N. Curzon,
  garding the attitude of the government on the bimetallic question was open to misinterpretation. MT. Ourzon stated that the government had been approached with view to the converting of another International -bimetalic conference. Lord Salisbury MT. Curzon added, had replied that he would consult with his colleagues an the ministry before giving a definite answer. The prime minister had, how ever, informed the powers making the overtures that he had no desire to op- pose the holding of such a conference if good grounds were shown, but upon learning that the reopening of the Indian mints was necessary condition to an in ternational monetary agreement, he had refused to continue the matter to any further conclusion. It can be stated that Lord Salisbury is willing to consent to the reopening of the Indian hints and to keep them open under certain conditions, but to these conditions neither Russia nor Austria will consent. In the mean time the negotiations are blocked New ertheless, the prospects that the negotia- tions will be continued caused some spec ulative buying of silver.
 Certain favored conservative journal ists have obtained from the foreign office a story of what they call the Delagoa Bay plot, which throws the dearest side light upon the Boer and German Intrigue to secure a foothoid at Delagoa Bay, the capital of the Portuguese possessions ip
 f..1. xt<.1x Fr<x. inlet and outlet to the trade of the Trans vaa1 There is no doubt of the truth of the story which is to the effect that just priofhto the raid of Dr. Jameson into the Transvaal MT. Milne, a Portuguese con cesssionaire, who held frontage on the foreshore of Delagoa Bay for a distance of seven miles, offered to sell the conces- sion to great Britain for f20000 sterling. The government, through Sir Hercules Robinson. governor of Cape Colony and British high commissioner in South Af- rica, declined to deal with Milne. as it was expected that 1t would do, as nothing was then known in England of the Transvaal row. Thereupon Presi- dent Kruger who for a long time has been making efforts to secure a port for tho Transvaal, supplied Seman and Eiffe, a German firm. with money to purchase the concession. thus giving to German subjects, who are entitled to German pro tection Territory rights on Delagoa Bay. The concession will soon be actively op- erated Seman and Fife control the trade route. outside of the railway, to the Transyaal and the main routes to Swaziland. 5sss 1e s,s. sf
 pr. W .-J. Leyds the Transvaal secre- tary of state. before coming to Europe visited Deiagoa Bay and arranged an im- porfant part of the Boer-German coup against British possession of that place. As Great Britain would rather go to war than to submit her rights to preempt