The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-02-07
BITS FROM BERLIN.
STRAIN BETWEEN FRANCE AND
ENGLAND CAUSES NO CONCERN
Official and Newspaper Opinion One
of acknowledgements At
fairs in a Disturbed Condition
Fort Works Around the Boer Cap
ital Being Pushed-Dr. Koch Has
Discovered a New Serum.

Berlin, Feb. 6.-Oficial and news
paper opinion regard the re-
newed strain between France and
England with complete equanimity,
and the declarations concerning Egypt
made by Sir Michael Hicks Beach, the
British chancellor of the eXchequer in
the house of commons in London yes
terday are attributed to that gentle
mans knowledge that England has the
support of Germany, Austria and Italy
in regard to her occupation OF Egypt.
The Hamburg Correspondent, in an
article on the subject, gives expression
to the opinion generally entertained In
Berlin when it says that France mas
no legal right to force England to
evacuate Egypt. Concerning the atti-
tude of Russia toward Egypt the st.
Petersburg Novoe Nremya says that
Russia intends to confine herself to
placing the Suez canal under interna-
tional control, otherwise she has no
interest in Egypt. Speaking of the at
titude of the AuStro- Hungary govern
ment the Pesther Lloyd, in an inspired
communication from Vienna, expresses
regret that the line of F'ranco-Russian
entente menaceS the concord of the
powers at the very time when a perfect
harmony is most urgently needed. The
effect will likely be- the paper adds,
Ito defeat a solution of the difficulties
in Turkey, and we must now exert
every effort to restore the harmony of
the relations between France and Great
Britain
The adhesion of Germany and En-
gland to common policy in regard to
Egypt it had been hoped, would lead
to an abatement of English aggression
in the Transvaal, but advices received
from Pretoria announce the occurrence
of a serious split between DR.. Leyds,
the secretary of state of the South
African Republic, and President Kru-
ger, which advices furnish an eX-
PLANTATION of the reported intention of
DR.. Leyds to resign his office. DR..
LeydS has a large number of follow
ers and, according to the dispatches.
the prediction is freely made that he
the independence of the Transvaal gov
eminent, or such a revision of the
Anglo-Boer convention as will give the
TranSvaal government absolute control
of its foreign relations.
The Vossiche Zeitung publishes a
dispatch from its correspondent in Pre-
toria which says that fort works, which
have been in course of construction
around the Boer capital, are now be-
fcverish haste, and also that distrust
of England is increasing everywhere in
the Transvaal and a rapid increasing
war feeling has set in.
DR.. Koch, the eminent German bac-
teriologist. has telegraphed from Cape
Town that he is returning with
newly discovered serum which will
lessen the force of the rinderpest In
the meantime he says he is unable to
say whether he will be able to prevent
animals from being infected with the
disease. He has demonstrated that
sheep and horned cattle are the most
liable of all animals to contract the
disease and that dogs, monkeys and
rodents enjoy complete immunity from
it. DIR. Koch wires that he is not going
to Bombay to study the bubonic plague
which is raging there, and denies that
he has been asked to head the com
mission which is to be sent to Bombay
for that purpose.
The speeches delivered in the reich
stag this week by F'reiher r. Marschall
Won 3ieberstein in regard to the prose-
cption of Baron Won Luetzow and
others for libel are pronounced every
where to have been the best he has
ever made and have won admiration
)n all sides. The Conservative papers
are more Drofuse in their praise of
him, and Count Ecu Limburg- Stirum. |
leader, expressed hope
hat the minister would retain his Of !
ice