The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-04
TRANSVAAL TO BE TRANQUIL.
KRUGER'S TRIUMPH OVER GREAT
BRITAIN COMPLETE.

German Editors Point Out That the
British Government Could Not IN
dertake Aggressive Measures Now
without Exciting the Combined
Opposition of the POwers-The
German Emperor Aware in Adj
vance of the Strength OF the Boer
Position.
Berlin, May 3.-The latest advices di-
rect from Pretoria, the capital of the
South African republic. remove all of
the apprehension that there will be war
between the Transvaal republic and Eng
land. The feeling here is that President
Kruger's diplomacy has rendered Eng
land powerless TO trespass upon the inde-
pendence of the Beers without outraging
the opinion of the world and justifying
the powers in intervening
DR.. W. J. Leyds, the secretary of state
for the Transvaal republic. who recently
spent some months in Germany, will re-
turn to Berlin in July in some new Off
cial capacity. and Germany will soon send
an important diplomat to Pretoria, and
this will certainly be done, too, without
asking the opinion of England The ut
terances of Joseph Chamberlain, British
secretary of state for the colonies, against
foreign Intervention in the Transvaal,
have made no impression here, and will
not in the least affect Germany's action.
The revelations which have just been
made in Pretoria showing the duplicity of
the British officials may have startled the
German public, but they have not sur
prised the German government, whose
communications from Pretoria have kept
the German foreign Office advised of even
more than President Kruger has as yet
chosen to publish. The unanimous voice
of the press strongly condemns Mr.. Cham
berlain's want of tact and the clumsy and
arrogant style of his treatment of Presi-
dent Kruger, whom Prince Bismarck de-
scribed as the most astute diplomat he
| had ever met.
The remission by President Kruger of
| the sentences Of death pronounced upon
the leaders Of the Johannesburg reform
committee has only found approval here
as having been dictated by political pru-
| dence. The National Zeitung, in an ar
| ticle on the subject, says: If the con-
demned had been promptly executed their
fate would have been partly due to Mr..
| Chamberlain, whose manner toward the
Beers has forced them to show that their
rights deserve equal consideration with
| those of the English"
The Vossiche Zeitung says: Neither
| Great Britain nor the chartered South
| African Company had any right to expect
| that the lives of the condemned men
| would be spared, and the convicts ought
|
| the comedy of the trial of DIR. Jameson in
/ London, the government at Pretoria
| should deal with them severely"
| Gen Won Hahnke, chief of the empe-
| ror's military cabinet, had a conference
/ with DIR. Kayser of the colonial depart
| ment of the foreign office, on Thursday
| upon an appeal to reinforce the troops
| in German Southwest Africa, where there
| are at present only $50 men, including
! the officers. After the conference be-
| tween Gen. Won Hahnke and DR.. Kayser,
| Prince Won HohenlOhe, the imperial chan
| cellor, discussed the subject with the en-
| peror, and it is understood that they
| reached an agreement to send reinforce
| mentS to German Southwest Africa az
| once. The revolt of the tribes of the
| khaVas and HererOs is spreading. Ad-
| vices received by the government by Maj.
LeutWein, the chief functionary IN Ger
| man Southwest Africa, refer to the gem
| eral agitation of the natives against Eu-
| ropeans and asks that more troops be
| sent to him Immediately.
! The passages by the Reichstag of the
| provision of the Bourse reform bill for
| bidding dealing in grain futures has met
violent opposition in Baden and Hanse
| cities. The Berlin Post says that Rus
| sia and Bavaria will accept the provis-
| ion, however and thus secure a majority
| in favor of the measure in the Bundles
rath. The general committee of the
| Reichstag propose to adjourn the session
| of the chamber about May % until au-
| tumn, but the government has not vet
decided upon the matter.