The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-01-13
Thinks She Has Outgeneraled
Emperor of Germany.
Her Great Show of Strength In
Warships Did It.
EMPEROR TOO RASH.
The Older Heads of Germany
Say Hold On.
Other Interesting News from
the Tran svaal.

LONDON, Jan. 13.-lnterest in the
Transvaal question in its immediate
bearings has revived to an apprecia BILE
extent, while the Incidental straining
of relations between Great Britain and
Germany, which so completely placed
the Beers in the background of the
picture for a time, has, in its turn, re-
coded, but by no means disappeared.
There is little apprehension of war
with Germany, over the present COM
plication, at least, and the British
public has a reassuring sense that if
there is to be war, England is quite
ready for it. The prompt and efficient
measures of the naval authorities, and
the formidable show of strength that
is the result, give John Bull feeling
of confidence.
There are no further explicit an
nouncements of movements looking to
an alliance of the powers against Eng
land to-day. Nevertheless, it is keenly
perceived by the public that the senti-
ment displayed by the German gov
eminent has far wider bearing than
the present dispute of the Transvaal,
and there are visions of future comp1i-
cations on questions of conflicting in
terests.
. Saturdays cabinet council and the
meetings at the colonial Office remain
largely a subject of speculation, and
whatever decisions may have been
taken are sedulously guarded as state
secrets, and the greatest care taken to
avoid publicity.
A dispatch received from sources
sympathetic with the Transvaal gov
eminent in Johannesburg, asserts the
plot of DR.. Jameson's raid, and the CO.
incident uprising of the Uitlanders,
was the most shameful in history. The
III, al - -1<~L = IL
asserts, was the intention of the agents
of the Chartered South African Com
pany to set loose the savages to invade
the Transvaal from all points, and to
kill every white man. It had been
engaged that, all over South Africa,
provisional stations should be created
on the lines of the route, and the points
had been fixed. The object was to de-
stroy Pretoria, and to present England
fait accompli before any interference
could reach them. Sketches of Pre-
toria 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.
The Standard says: fWe are en- =
abled to state that President Krneger
has not demanded any changes in the
treaty stipulations. If such were de-
manded England would resist.
eve are authorized to declare that
the emperor's telegram to President
Kruger was at most an expression of
feeling of momentary irritation,
which has now passed away, leaving
the relations between Germany and
England as friendly as heretofore. :"
The Standard, 1t should be remem-
bered, stands nearer to the present
government than any other newspaper
in England.
A dispatch to the Standard from
Berlin says: at is rumored that the
Empress Frederick has written to
Queen Victoria and the Prince of
Wales, explaining the emperor's policy,
with the assurance that he had not the
slightest intention to darl1en the even
ing of the queens life. by an Anglo
German war"