The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-01-13
WAR CLOUD VANISHES
GERMANY AND ENGLAND COMING TO
A PEACEFUL UNDERSTANDING.
Emperor wifIiam's Dispatch Said to
Have Been Misinterpreted by the
Excited Britishers.
AN AUTHORIZED STATEMENT
LONDON STANDARD DECLARES ALI
IRRITATION PASSED AWAY.
New Interest I'm the TrnnsvanI Cues
ton, with Hints that Germany
Made n Blunder.
AN AUTHORIZED STATEMENT
LONDON STANDARD DECLARES ALL
IRRITATION PASSED AWAY.

LONDON, Jan. 12.-Interest in the Trans
vaal question in its immediate bearings has
revived to an apprec.able extent, while the
incidental straining of relations between
Great Britain and Germany, which so COM
pletely placed the Beers in the background
OF the picture for a time has in its turn
receded, but by means disappeared.
There is little apprehension of war with
Germany over the present complication, at
least, and the British public has reassur-
ing sense that if there is to be war Eng
land is right ready for It, The prompt
and efficient measures of the naval author
tiles and the formidable show of strength
that Is the result give John Bull feeling
of confidence. There are no further explic-
1t announcements of movements looking
to an alliance of the powers against Eng
land to-day.
Nevertheless. ii is keenly perceived by the
public that the sentiment displayed by the
German government has far wider bear
ing than the present dispute i'm Transvaal,
and there are visions of future complica-
tions on questions of conflicting interests.
Yesterdays Cabinet Council and the meet
ings at the Colonial Office remain largely
a subject of speculation, and whatever
decisions may have been taken are sedu-
lously guarded as state secrets and the
greatest care taken to avoid publicity.
Mr.. William II. Mercer, private secretary
to Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, said
tonight that the Secretary had no further
kilograms to communicate to the public
which had been received from South Africa.
The visit of the Prince of Wales to the
Colonial Office on Saturday, he said, just
when several of the directors of the char
tered South Africa Company was there,
was purely an accidental coincidence. His
Royal Hignness called, he said, to show
| his interest, and had made some kind re-
marks in recognition of Secretary Cham
berlain's Iabors This explanation Is hardly
| likely to satisfy the public in view OF recent
statements published that the directorship
of the Duke Of Fife, husband of Princess
Louise of Wales, in the chartered South
| Africa Company is a subject of concern
| to the royal family, and especially to the
Queen.
II Is understood that the difficulty over
the manner of disposal of DIR. Jameson's 3
followers was settled on Saturday, the
Transyaal government simply stipulating
that the rank and file OF the jameson expe-
dition should be deported from South Af-
RIGA According TO the Transvaal law, the
punishment for treason is banishment and a
large fine 1t is not believed here that Pres
ident Kruger has demanded the abrogaton
| of the London convention. which provides
| for the suzeranity of Great Britain over the
| Transvaal as the price of sparing DR.. jane
| sons life.
dispatch received from sources SYM
pathstic with the Transvaal government in
| Johannesburg, tonight, asserts that the
| plot for Dr. Jameson's raid and the coinci-
| dent uprising OF the Uitlanders was the
| most shameful in history. The blacklist
| part of the plot the dispatch asserts, was
| the intention of the agents of the chartered
| South Africa Company to set loose the saw
| ages to invade the Transvaal from all points
and 20 kill every white man. 1t had been
| engaged that all over South Africa provi-
| sion stations should be erected on the lines
| of route, and the points had been fixed. The
| object was to destroy Pretoria and to pre-
sent England with a ''fait accompli'' before
any interference could reach them. Sketches
| of Pretoria and of the Rand made by mill
tary men have, it is said. been seized.
| This story is denounced in London as a
| gross exaggeration, and 1t is regarded as
being intended to prejudice the South AZ
rica Company I'm the negotiations 1t is
| making.
dispatch received by the chartered
| South Africa Company from Buluwayo an
nounces that the outcome of mass meet
ing of the English colony, bankers and mer-
| chants there was the declaration of unan-
| imous desire to obey the imperial govern
ment. The public, IL was asserted. was fully
under control.
state that President Kruger has not de-
| manded any changes in treaty stipulations.
If such were demanded. England would re-
~fr "a ara ntlfhnrfZc6 hot
| the Emperors telegram 10 President Kru-
| ger was at most an expression of a feeling
| Of momentary irritation, which has now
| passed away, leaving the relations between
Germany and England as friendly as here
| tofore.'
The Standard, il should be remembered
| stands nearer to the present government
| than any other newspaper in England. A
dispatch to the Standard from Berlin says
SIT is rumored that the Empress Frederick
| Prince of Wales explaining the Emperor's
| policy. with the assurances that he had not
the slightest intention to darken the even
ing Of the Queens life by an Anglo-German
The Berlin correspondent of the Times
says: 1.-The publicity given to the exchange
| of letters between the Queen and the
| Emperor is very unwelcome here. 1t i
| regarded as an iniiscreet attempt to make
political capital in the English interest out
| of the family relations of the two courts
The substance OF the letters can only be a
| matter of surmise. The contents of the
4 | EmperOr'S letter may be inferred from the
| very conciliatory and reassuring words he
addressed on the following day to the for.
eign representatives here on the occasion
of the funeral of Prince Alexander, OF
| Prussia, when he emphasized the un.
! abated friendlness of the English
| and German governments. Unfortunately
| however. IL is too early to indulge ir
| optimisms. President kruger's attitude NAV
| be better test of Germany's real attitude
| than professions of amity. If Presiden,
| Kruger prove obdrrate. IL will be difficult
TO resist the conclusion that he has been al.
lowed TO count on Germany's support II
| sons coup the organ of the German For.
| eign Office urged President Kruger to ig-
rore the manifesto ofthe national union OF
| johannesburg. DR.. Jamesons ill-starrec
enterprise simply gave Germany an oppor.
tunity TO shift her ground to a plausible
condemnation of a breach of internationa
law"
A dispatch to the Times from Vienna say:
that the German National Association o.
Austria has telegraphed congratulations 4
President Kruger. An editorial In the Time.
SAYS: There is far too great a disposition
20 assume that the Transvaal difficulty l.
ended. IL can cnly be truly said that th,
| immediate danger OF bloodshed has beer
| ayortcd. But all the evils and terrors which
make disturbance in the Transvaal. witt
or without DR.. Jameson. merely a question
OF time still remain unsettled. While Presi
dent Kruger is releasing DIR. jameson.
men with one hand. with the other he Il
throwing into prison the heads OF all th'
cannot be allowed to transfer the charge,
OF treason from armed invaders 90 tn,