The herald., 1898-09-04
CZAR'S PROCLAMATION
(Continued From Page One.)

fused at one station entering by another
A new system has been adopted for mark
ing and telegraphing everywhere minute
description of refused shipments.
The newspapers are widely discussing
the reasons for the decline in German eX-
ports to the United States. They generally
deny that politics has anything to do with
1t, and lay the whole blame on the high
tariff.
Anglo German Alliance
NEW YORK, Sept. 3.-A dispatch 10 the
World from London says:
| Little crsdence is attached in well-in-
| formed quarters 20 the reported Anglo
German alliance.
In the past fortnight the German Am
bassador has had almost daily interviews
with Mr.. Balfour who is acting as For
eigu Secretary, and the rumor mentioned
is a conjecture founded on these visits.
1t is regarded as highly probable that
Balfour has been engaged in negotiating
an agreement for the reconstruction of the
mixed tribunal in Egypt. whose existence
expires by lapse Of time next year.
Germany would demand some consider
alton for siding with England in this mat
ter and an arrangement is limited at by
which Delagoa Bay is TO be acquired from
Portugal on the understanding that Ger
many is TO obtain certain trading facili-
ties there.
Beyond this there is believed TO be noth-
ing in the air between England and Ger
many at present.
In financial circles where these reports
originated, a tendency Is shown to sup
port Portuguese stocks. which have been
very firm, and South African shares have
also improved, on the prospect OF the set
Element of the long-vexed Delagoa bay DIFF
ficulty.
Alliance Reasserted
LONDON, Sept. 3.-The Pail Mali Gazette
says this afternoon that it Is satisfied that
general Anglo-German agreement has
beer reached to act together in various
quarters of the world. The paper adds that
it has verified yesterdays Information and
as an instance of where Germany's support
will, prove exceedingly useful. 1t points
out that the fall OF Omdurman will change
Great Bri.ains position in Egypt, and
that in the face of inevitable French and
Russian resentment Germany will be use
ful as an active guarantor of our perma-
nent Occupauon.
A German Report
BERLIN. Sept. 3.-The officials Of the
German Foreign Office assert that the re-
port that a defensive and offensive alliance
has been concluded between Great Britain
and Germany is without foundation. The
British Ambassador here, Sir Laselles,
was asked If an agreement between Great
Britain and Germany concerning Africa
had been reached. He said:
such an agreement already exists. Ger
many prefers that England, rather than
France. should hold Egypt, although all
that Germany expected since the English
occupation has not been realized.
IAN Anglo-Gernan understanding re-
garding the rest Of Africa also exists. The
recent meetings between Mr.. Balfour and
Count Won Hatzfeldt dealt with other
matters"
The National Zeitung says:
The reports of an offensive and defensive
alliance are unfounded. The British gov
ernment Is not in a position to conclude
such an alliance, nor does there exist in
authorlta tive quarters in Germany the
slightest inclination to completely identify
our own foreign policy with that Of an
other power. There can only be some
colonial arrangements, the relations of the
powers in other respects remaining unal-
tered. It must be particularly understood
that Russian interests are in no wise
prejudiced.
The Cologne Gazette says II believes the
agreement is merely an arrangement for
an Anglo-German loan to Portugal"