The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-05
BITTER AGAINST JOHN BULL.
GERMAN HATRED OF THE ENGLISH
STRIKINGLY SHOWN.

| The Whole Empire Ready 10 Take
Up Arms in Defense of the Beers.
The Relations OF the Two Govern
ments Strained Almost to the
Point OF an Absolute Rupture on
Wednesday-The situation Not Yet
Devoid of Danger.
/ Berlin, Jan. 4.-The emperor's act In
sending a message to President Kruger
of the South African republic. congratu-
lating him upon the victory of the Beers
over the armed forces led into the Trans
Vaal by DR.. jameson, administrator OF
/ the British South Africa Company is
hailed with enthusiasm throughout Ger
many and viii add greatly to his majes-
\ tvs popularity as being a true interpre-
/ tation of the intensity of German public
| hostility toward Great Britain.
| The message of the emperor could not
have been very great surprise to the
English government as some days prior
TO the publication of the message the en-
! peror instructed Count Won Hatzfeldt
| the German ambassador to Great Britain
TO inform Lord Salisbury with the utmost
| 1rankness that it was the firm determin-
| alton Of Germany not to allow the gov
| ernment of the South African republic
! TO be overthrow. At the same time Count
Won Hatzfeldt was instructed 10 demand
an explanation of the movements of the
authorities of the British South Africa
! Company These representations were at
| oohce answered by the British foreign Of
/ nc. Inc nrst replies made by Lord Sails
| bury were deemed unsatisfactory. So
much so, indeed, that the relations of the
! Two governments on Wednesday last be-
] came so strained as to be on the noint
/ OF absolute rupture. The consequence was
! tnat diplomatic surrender on the part
I OF Lorq salisbury was the only thing that
! aVerted the gravest climax. Even now
| although the situation is modified il is
/ not devoid OF danger and the summaries
| OF Qhe comments of the English press up
| on the emperors Interference in the
! 1ransVaal atteir, which are published
mere, serve to highten the popular anger
| against England, while the ant-English
| feeling pervades all classes of the Ger
] man press. Every political party ana
/ group, the socialists Included, sides with
| tne Boers and denounces the aggression
The North German Gazette quotes with
! expressions of approval the declaration
| of the Cologne Gazette that the Trans
| Vaal republic is an absolutely independent
! state and the Deutsche Taseszeitung
| says that not only the road to CONSTANT
! nople, but that also the road to
johannesburg lies through Berlin
| Several newspapers with government
ainllatons and Inspirations acquiesce
| IN these expressions and add that
/ the alliance between Russia and France
mas oeen enlarged by the acces-
/
! of European powers with anti-Englsh
| aims number Of papers are exulting
N the Isolation of England and predict
that her lonely situation will become an
important factor in the settlement of the
! Venezuelan difficulty.
The youth, the Drawn and sinew of Ger
| many are moved to offer active assis-
| tance to the Beers, while their elders are
! INSPIRED to tender moral and financial aid.
! Dr. Carl Peters, the explorer, was charg-
| ed by a meeting of the Deutsche Colonial
| Gesellschaft, held yesterday, to send a
| cablegram to President Kruger of the
! BOer republic expressing the sympathy
| OF the society with him and his cause
! and promising active and material sup
| port A private syndicate has placed at
| the disposal of DR.. Peters the sum of
! 100000 marks for the purpose of organiz-
| ing a corps of volunteers TO go to the
| Iransvaal, and similar offers have been
! plentiful. Among other offers is that of
! a number of young Americans, studying
! in Germany, who have expressed their
! readiness to accept a chance to fight the
| continued.
The sum of the position is that Great
| Britain must withdraw her pretensons
| TO a right to interfere in the Transvaal
! and punish the leaders of the British
! South Africa Company who are respon-
| sible for the invasion of the Boer terri
| tory or she will inevitably become in
| yolved in a collision with Germany. A
| formal German protectorate over the
| South African republic is not designed,
! but the government of Germany will sup
| port the Transvaal republic i'm declaring
! the convention of 1884 void, thus enabling
/ the Beers to obtain their fun indepen-
| dence of Great Britain. Virtually British
] claims TO suzrafnty over the TranSVaal
| must in all respects be abolished. If the
| South African republic shall ask refer
| ence of the matters in dispute between it
| self and England, the questions will be
| referred TO the European powers which
| are interested in Africa, and Germany
| will support such conference France
| can be relied upon to take part and if
! conference is had it Will greatly disap-
! point German expectation if the discus
| sion of the questions involved does not
| result in recognition of the independence,
| not only of the Transvaal but of the
| Orange Free State, as we'll.
1t is not denied here that reform in the
| administration of the internal affairs of
the South Africa republic is advisable, but
/ they must be obtained without the appli-
| cation of foreign pressure, British or any
| other, unless strictly questions for inter-
| national settlement. Little or no sympa-
| thy is bestowed upon DIR. Jameson, and
! Mr.. Chamberlain's appeal to President
| Kruger to deal gently with the British
| South African prisoners is derided by the
| German press, who declare a summary
| trial by court martial, followed by the
| prompt execution Of the leaders of the
| raid commends itself to German opinion
/ as the proper mode of procedure in their
! cases. A strict application of the law
! involving the sacrifice of the lives of the
rank and file of the prisoners would not
meet with approval here, but it is the gen.
made of the leaders.
1t has transpired that the emperor has
| had serious quarrel with Prince Fred
erick Leopole of Prussia, the husband of
Princess Louise Sophie of Schleswig-Hol-
stein, sister of the empress, over the re-
| cent accident to the princess while slxat-
ing near Glenicke castle, Potsdam, when
| the princess and one Of the ladies of the
court, Baroness Caimar, broke through
the ice and came very near drowning 1t
appears that the emperor upbraided the
prince for the indifference Of his treat
ment of his wife, and the prince used some
pretty rough words in replying to the
kaisers rebuke. The emperor thereupon
ordered him under arrest for four days
with confinement in a room in his castle
for that length of time. The kaiser at
once telegraphed for detachment of the
First Guards to be sent from Potsdam
to Glenioke castle to guard the prince
and he has since been confined there, not
being permitted to leave his chamber