The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-12
1T IS ALL WAR TALK
London and Berlin Society DOings
Are Not Considered Any More.
GOSSIP IN THOSE CITIES
The Story is Now That the Trouble
In South Africa Was Brought
on by English Financiers-
Active Preparations.

Berlin, Jan. 11.-Throughout the week
the Transvaal question has monopoliz-
ed public attention. 1t is the unanimous
feeling in Germany that the Jameson
raid was due to the connivance upon
the part of the British government, in
spite of official denials, and all of Ger
many is intensely anti English. This
feeling is finding vent in resolutions
passed by the Colonial and other asso-
Citations In favor of Transvaal indie
pendence, and the entire press is ex-
pressing hostility towards England.
In the reichstag. however. the Trans
vaal matter win not be ventilated, IN
consequence of hint received from the
minister for foreign affairs, Baron Won
Bieberstein, that the government does
not want to show dts hand, and that
would be inconvenienced by a discus
sion of the subject. 1t is generally be-
lieved here that Russia and France are
supporting Germany i'm the latter's ef-
forts 10 preserve the independence OF
the Transvaal Emperor William felt
bound to assure President Kruger or
Germany's sympathy and, IL necessary,
support, and he deemed himself bound
to take this step by the verbal appeal
of President Kruger during the latter
stay in Berlin, to the emperor's grand
father william l.. and to Prince Bis
marck i'm 1884. for help in the hour of
trouble, to which appeal Emperor Will
liam /. made a half promise to sup
port.
The attacks made upon the emperor
by the London press are regarded here
as being typical of British insolence,
and the claims of suzeradnty rights up
ftagv,
swered by quoting the wording of the
convention of 1884, i'm which the British
crown expressly waived all rights. save
on one point. This is also the view
taken of the situation by the German
government, and minute and frequent
dnsatruc tions have been sent to the Ger
man ambassador at London. Count Won
Hatzfeldt- wildenburg. to act in strict
accordance with il.
1t was semi officially announced to-
day that Prince Bismarck will not be
able to come TO Berlin upon the occa-
sion OF the celebration of the anniver-
sary of the proclamation of the German
empire, Jan. is.
A new step has been taken in the
agrarian campaign against foreign
competition. The agrarians will exert
powerful pressure i'm favor OF excluding
all foreign cereals containing an ad-
mixture of weeds or other substances,
ft being held that this makes them un-
fit for food. Professor Heimoich of the
Bostock University and other experts
have made a series of microscopic ex-
aminations of Russian, American and
Roumanian cereals with results, IL Is
claimed, which show large admixtures
of deleteTdous matter
The death of Prince Alexander of
Prussia will lead TO the curtailing OF
court festivities in the next three
months. The hunting parties arranged
for this month will be cancelled.
The quarrel between Emperor Will
liam and Prince Frederick Leopold of
Prussia, arising out of the latter 8
treatment OF his wife while she was
suffering from the effects of the sudden
immersion in the water. having fallen
through the ice while skating, is much
talked of. The prince was arrested and
confined under guard in his palace. but
no newspaper here dares TO take the
risk of publishing all the facts in the
case 1t Is stated that the prince had
a violent alteration with the princess.
and that he even used a horsewhlp up
on her AS the princess is a sister of
the empress. it is not astonishing that
Emperor William was very angry.