The herald., 1896-01-12
The TransvaaI Question MOnOp0-
Lies Public Attention
HOSTILITY TO ENGLAND
Based On Belief That James0n's Raid
Was Authorized
New Departure In the Agrarian Program to
Exclude Foreign Cereals -Kneebes
Will Stand Trial

Associated Press Special Wire,
BERLIN, Jan. 11.-(Copyrighted, 1896,
by the Associated Press. )-Throughout the
week the Transvaal question has monopo-
lized public attention. 1t is the unani.
nous feeling in Germany that the Jameson
raid was due to connivance on the part of
the British government, in spite of official
denials, and all Germany is intensely but
quietly anti-English. This feeling is find
ing vent in resolutions passed by colonial
and other associations in favor of Trans
vaal independence, and the entire press is
expressing hostility to England.
In the reichstag, however, the Transvaal
matter will not be vented in consequence
OF a hint received from the minister for
foreign affairs, Baron Won Bieberstein,
that the government does not want to
show its hand and that it would be incon-
venienced by decision of the subject. 1t
is generally believed here that Russia and
France are supporting Germany in the lat
ter's efforts to preserve the independence
of the rransvaal.
Emperor William felt bound to assure
President Kruger of Germany's sympathy
and, If necessary, support, and he deemed
himself bound to take this step by the YER
bal appeal of President Kruger during the
latter's stay in Berlin to the emperor g
grandfather, William I, and to Prince Bis
marck in 1884, for help in the hour of
trouble, 70 which appeal Emperor William
made half promise of support.
The attacks made upon the emperor by
the London press are regarded here as be-
ing typical of British insolence, and the
claim of suzerainty rights upon the part of
Great Britain Is answered by quoting the
wording of the convention of 1884, in
which the British crown expressly waived
all rights, save on one point. This is also
the view taken by the German government,
and minute and frequent instructions have
been sent to the German ambassador at
London, Count Hatzfeldt-W Wildenburg, to
act in strict accordance with it.
1t was semi-officially announced today
that Prince Bismarck will not be able to
come to Berlin on the occasion of the cele-
bration of the anniversary of the proclaim
alton of the German empire, January IS.
A new step has been taken in the Agrar-
ian campaign against foreign competition.
The Agrarians will exert powerful pres
sure in favor of excluding all foreign
cereals containing an admiXture of weeds
or other substances, it being held that this
makes them unfit for food Professor
Heimock, of Rostock university, and other
experts have made series of microscopic
examinations of Russian, American and
Romanian cereals, with results, it is
claimed, which show a large admixture of
deleterious matter.
Emperor William has now begun the
execution of his design TO erect a sculp-
tured ancestral gallery in Thergarten,
near the colnnn of victory.
The sculptors Schott and Unger have
been entrusted with The carving of the first
statues. All the statues will be of Carara
marble.
The death of Prince Alexander of Prus-
sia will lead to the curtailing of coui
festivities in the next three months. The
hunting parties arranged for this month
will be- cancelled.
The quarrel between Emperor William
and Prince Frederick Leopold of Prussia,
arising out of the latter's treatment of his
wife, while she was suffering from the ef-
fects of sudden immersion in the water,
having fallen through the ice while skating,
| ls 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 horsewhip upon her. As the
| princess is a sister of the empress it is not
| astonishing that Emperor William was
| very angry.
r. A. Kneebes, the American who is
charged with racing horses under assumed
names, has returned here from the Uni ed
States to stand trial.
The wife and daughter of Senator Dolph
OF Oregon are here.