The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-25
Colonial LIMOGES Highly Elated
Over Credits Voted by the
ReichStag.
EAGER FOR A BoER ALLIANCE.
Dark Days Are Predicted for Grea
Britain When the Coronation
Fetes End at Moscow.


last Tuesday granting the Government
credit of ., 600 600 marks for the purpose of
adding 420 men to the military force in
&c rman Southwest Africa met with very
slight opposition. The action of the
House fitted admirably with popular feel
ing and has delighted the colonial jingoes,
who continue diligently to advance their
South African boom. The increase au-
thorized by the resolution will give Major
Leutwein, the administrator of affairs In
German Southwest Africa, command of
1000 effective troops, which are regarded
as ample to suppress the rising of the
natives in that territory. The origin of
the outbreak among the natives has not
been officially explained, but the uniform
belief OF the colonial party that the rising
was fomented by British intrigue was
given expression during the debate on the
credit resolution in the Reichstag last
Tuesday by a member of the Right, and
the German press in articles on the subject
denounce the English Leaders who have
been supplying the natives in South At
RIGA with arms for years past.
1t is not the prospect of crushing the ne
groes in Southwest Africa, however, that
eates the colonial party in Germany.
The Neueste Nachrichten, which is the
foremost of the colonial organs, makes no
concealment of the hopes of the colonials,
and reveals perhaps more of the aims of
the Government than are obvious upon
the surface. The paper, after remarking
that there is community of interests be-
tween the Transvaal and German South
west Africa despite the fact that the two
territories are separated by Bechuanaland,
adds that by means of the force of 1000
men, which Major Leutwein will have at
his command, Germany will acquire a po-
sition in Southwest Africa, the influence
of which is already felt in Cape Town.
The general situation, the Neueste Mach
richten continues, has undergone a
change, and the Beers now indirectly re-
ceive support of which time will plainly
display its effects.
The annual meeting of the German Colo
NAL Society will be held here on May so,
| when resolution will be submitted prom
Using the support of the German Govern
ment in promoting the neutrality of the
Boer republics as essential to the further
ance OF German interests. This expression,
however, will hardly have the effect of sat.
:,
who Endorsed the demand of the Neuste
Nachrichten Tor the establishment of an
offensive and defensive alliance between
Germany and the Transvaal.
The speech made by Joseph Chamber
lain British Secretary of State for the Col.
onies, upon the occasion of the South Afri-
can annual dinner at the Hotel Metropole
in London Thursday evening, in which he
/ sharply criticized the action OF the Trans
vaal Government in its vindictlve treat
| ment of the Johannesburg Reform Com
mittee prisoners, is vehemently denounced
by the entire German press, the National
Zeitung expressing regret that President
Kruger should have shown so great a de-
| gree of magnanimity toward the prisoners.
A great international chess tournament
is to be held at Nurem burg, beginning on
| July 20. The first prize will be $500, the
| second 1915 and the third $500, besides
which there will be tour smaller prizes
| All of the best European chess masters
| are expected TO be present, and it is hoped
that leading American chess players will
also take part.
American purchasers of German manu-
features are devoting a great deal Of atten
now running smoothly. Several orders
have been lodged by Americans with one
of the largest German firms engaged in
the manufacture of machinery, aggregat.
ing 100000 marks. Exhibitors of dry.
goods, however, complain of an utter lack
OF American orders.
A great deal of interest is being taken In
the Hungarian millennial celebration a.
| BUDAPEST, to which place it is expected
| that large number of people will go from
| Germany during the summer. Reports
received here say that there were NOR,
than 200 Americans in BUDAPEST last
week, the majority of whom went from
| there to Moscow to witness the coron atio1
of the Gar. Before going, however, they
| ordered rooms reserv ed for them pendinl
| their return.
Hon. John Wanamaker OF Philadelphia
| formerly Postmaster-General of the United
! States, during his recent visit here entered
into negotiations for the purchase o
| Munkacsy's latest painting "Ecce Homo,
but with what result is not known.
The Khans, trotting-horse owners O
Hamburg, have purchased the American
trotters Bullet and Gloria, and the Beer
man Brothers of Charlottenburg hav,
bought DR.. Austin and Lucy w. Th.
horses will go into possession of their new
owners after the close of the West Emo
races, in which they are entered.
DR.. Irmer, Governor of the Marshal
Islands, IN the Pacific Ocean, takes occa
sion in report recently received from him
by the Colonial Department OF the FOREIGN
Office to deny the truth of the attacks re.
| Gently made upon the American mission.
aries stationed upon those islands. DR.
Irmer pays high tribute to the maligned
missionaries who, he says, are peaceful
and quietly devoting themselves 10 Chris.
tan work, holding themselves aloof from
| all agitation.
A great deal of regret is felt in court cir.
cles here at the death of Archduke Karl
Ludwig OF Austria, brother of Emperor
| Francis Joseph, who died in Vienna a few
days ago. The Archduke was regarded
here as thoroughly good, though by no
means brilliant, man, and was liked by
all who came in contact with him. 1t is