The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-16

GERMANY AND THE BOERs.
The Nation Ready TO Battle for Their
Defense IL Necessary.

Berlin, Feb. 15.-'The invectives which
for some time were hurled by the semi
official press against England. had a lull
last week, but this week they have been
renewed, but in a smaller way. Though
these expressions are more guarded than
formerly, they indicate that the German
government Is thoroughly dissatisfied with
the statements which have been made in
parliament by the British ministers in re-
gard to the situation and Ensland's rea-
tiOns in tho Transvaal. Nor does this con-
dition of affairs furnish the only griev-
ance which Germany has, according TO
these sources of Information. There is
advices received at the foreign office from
South Africa are of a character that tend
greatly to increase the strain upon the
relations between England and Germany.
Although the Berlin press are almost
unanimous in praising the frankness of
the statements made in the Reichstag by
Baron Won Biaberstein, minister of foreign
affairs, in the debate on the Trans
yaal situation on Thursday, in which
he declared that nothing had occurred to
change the good relations between Ger
foreign minister's statement and the
white book, containing the IranSYaal
cOrresp spOndence, as well diScloses q not
able and successful eoncealment of the
very things that the public are most de-
Sir0uS to know. Baron Won Blebersteln
assured the Reichstag that the white
DOOk contained all OF the documents III lie
possession. of the government bearing upon
the subject, but any one looking in the
book for the all-important telegram from
Pretoria of Dec. 81, mentioned IN the dis
patch to Count Won Hatzfeldt, the German
ambassador TO Great Britain, would fail
to find II and this Is only one instance out
of several, wherein important commune
cations have been suppressed. There IS
no doubt however, that the foreign min
ister's Vindication of Germany's rights in
the Transvaal is approved by the people
xaF no
denz going to the length Of saying that
the Transvaal and Delagoa Bay, together
with the strip of Portuguese territory be-
tween Delagoa Bay and the IransYaal,
are under the protection of the European
powers. The North German Gazette,
however corrects this statement, as be-
ing in conflict with the recognized polit-
cal and territorial situation.
Germany, the Zeitung asserts, does not
claim the right to such protectorate as
the Correspondents describes, and declares
that the main point of Germany's dispute
with England is that of the formers safe
guarding herself against Englands en-
croachments upon Germany's interests, in
The speech delivered by Baron Won Bic
berstein in the Reichstag, which has been
revised and published in the Reichzanzie-
ger, the official gazette, puts the whole
case in one sentence, thus: THE German
government win uphold the status quo of
Delagoa Bay, and also the rights involved
in the ownership OF the German railways,
and the maintenance of the Independence
of the South African republic as guaran-
teed by the treaty of 1884"
The Cologne Gazette, while warning
England not to venture to interfere in the
internal reforms of the Transvaal, advises
the Beers to remove any possible pretext
for such Interference by granting some
concessions to the Uitlanders. The Vos-
sische Zeitung says that England, If she
is desirous of living upon good terms with
Germany, must become accustomed to see
Germans maintaining a hold upon a part
of the mainland of South Africa. Be-
sides having weighty interests in South
Africa, Germany, the Zeitung says, has
subjects there and must also protect her
right to save a nation connected with her
by race, from brutal violence and to com
pei respect for treaties.
The sum of the matter is that If Great
Britain should menace an attack on the
South African republic upon the pretext
of defending British subjects in that terri
tory Germany would be unanimous in ap-
proving the Intervention of the imperial
government in the most active form in de-
fense of the Beers.