The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-01-13
INTEREST IS REVIVED
However, There Is Little Apprehen-
sion of a War With Germany.
JOHN BULL is CONFIDENT
The Sentiment Displayed by the
kaiser's Government Has a
Wider Bearing Than the Dis
pute In the TransvaaI.

| copyrighted 1896 by Associated Press).
London, Jan. 12.-Interest in the
| Transvaal question in its immediate
| bearings has revived to an appreciable
extent, while the incidental straining
OF relations between Great Britain and
Germany, which so completely placed
the Beers in the background of the pic
ture for a time has in its turn receded.
but by no means disappeared. There
is little apprehension of war with Ger
many over the present complication at
least. and the British public has a re-
assuring sense that. IL there is to be a
war; England is right ready for 1t. The
prominent and efficient measures of the
naval authorities and the formidable
show OF strength that is the result. give
John Bull a feeling of confidence. There
are no further explicit announcements
of movements looking to an alliance of
the powers against England to-day.
Nevertheless, II is keenly perceived by
the public that the sentiment displayed
by the German government has a far
wider bearing than the present dispute
in the Transvaal, and there are visions
of future complications on questions of
conflicting interests.
Yesterdays cabinet council and the
meetings at the colonial Office remain
largely a subject of speculation. and
whatever decisions may have been
taken are guarded as state secrets and
the greatest care taken to avoid pub
licity.
William II. Mercer. private secretary
to Colonial Secretary Chamberlain,
said tonight that the secretary had
no further kilograms to communicate
to the public. The visit of the Prince
of Wales to the colonial Office on Sat
urday. he said. just when several di-
rectors of the chartered South Africa
company was there, was partly an ac-
cidental coincidence. His royal high
ness called, he said, to show his inter-
est, and had made some kind remarks
in recognition of Secretary Chamber
lain's labors. This explanation is
hardly likely to satisfy the public. In
view Of the repeated statements pub
lished 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. especially to the queen.
1t is understood the difficulty over
the manner of the disposal of Jane
sons followers was settled on Satur-
day, the Transvaal government simply
stipulating that the rank and file of
the Jameson expedition should be de-
ported from South Africa. According
to the Transvaal law, the punishment
for treason is Punishment and a large
fine. 1t is not believed that President
Kruger has demanded the abrogation
of the London convention, which pro-
vides for the suzerainty of Great Brit
ain over the Transvaal as the price OF
sparing Jameson's life.
A dispatch received from sources
sympathetic with the Transvaal gov
ernment in johannesburg tonight as
serts the plot for Jameson's raid and
the coincident uprising OF the Uitland-
ers was the most shameful in history.
The blackest part of the plot, the dis
patch asserts. was the intention of the
agents of the chartered South Africa
company to let loose the savages to in
wade the Transvaal from all points and
to kill every white man. 1t had been
engaged that all over South Africa pro-
visional stations should be erected on
the lines of the route and the points
had been fixed. The object was to de-
stroy Pretoria and present England
with al fait accompli before any aid
could reach them. Sketches of Pretoria
and of the Rand made by military men
have, II is said, been seized. This story
is denounced in London as a gross ex-