The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-07
EARLY FOREIGN .ADYICEs.
England and Germany-Terms of Their ASreement-T Transvaal shut on From the Sea British Control of Delnnnn RmY.

England and Germany-Terms of Their
 ASreement-Tho Transvaal shut or
 From the Sea British Control of
 Delagoa Bay.
 London, Sept 6-Scraps of informal tion have leaked out during the last few days regarding the Anglo German agreement, and I am in a position to
 give the main features of it,
 The first point of agreement is that
 Germany and England have come to a complete understanding on all African
 questions.
 American interests are closely af-
 fected thereby. In February, 1895, Ger many, through Baron Marschan and
 Count Hatzfeldt, made formal claim upon Lord Kimberly, then British for
 eign secretary, for the maintenance of
 the status quo in South Africa, the
 especial object being to protect the Transvaal from British control. Germany now withdraws absolutely from that claim, and leaves Great Brit
 ain a completely free hand in South
 Africa. The German and British min istries further agree to give joint
 government guarantee to loan to
 Portugal to enable her to meet the
 award of the Swiss arbitrators re-
 garding the Delagoa railway. Arbi- tration is to decide the amount of com- pensation due from the Portuguese
 government to the McMurdo conces- sionaires of the Delagoa railway. The concessions being largely Amer
 ican, the United States and British
 governments have lon gbeen jointly
 amount of the arbitrators' award is
 not yet known, but the actual an-
 nouncement has been delayed only un- til Portugal should be placed in a
 monetary position to meet the claim. The Anglo-German guarantee of a Portuguese loan now secures this. The Transvaal, therefore, becomes an en- clase, and Kruger loses his only chance of an independent outlet to the sea- The new Anglo German agreement
 further provides that all steps neces-
 sary for England's acquisition by amic- able arrangement with Portugal of
 part or all of Mozambique shall re-
 ceive the ascent of Germany. Ger many also agrees to recognize the per-
 manence of the British occupation of Egypt for a curtailment of the juris- diction of the mixed tribunals. As quid pro quo Germany secures
 settlement of the frontier in Togo- land The neutral zone called Da- MAI. hrln a,,I | Togoland Is to be divided, giving Ger | many the bulk of the zone. The river White Volta is, as far as possible, to become the dividing line between the German and British sections. As a | further quid pro quo, the British min- ] istry agrees to assent, under certain conditions, to the arrangements which | the German emperor expects to make | with the sultan during his approach l ing visit to the Holy Land, and to fla l cilitate German colonization in Asia | Minor.
 These are the important features of | the new Anglo-German agreement, some of which must be made public when the Portuguese loan is announce l ed. But behind this understanding, of which the public soon will have official 1 information, there is believed to be a secret agreement giving Germany more l in the nature of quid pro quo. 1 I have no personal confirmation of l the statement published here to-day
 that England and Germany also have
 agree upon the joint creation of rail- way through the Germany sphere of l Shantung in China to the British | sphere of the Yangtse valley, but such
 cooperation has bean long in the minds of British ministers.