Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1899-12-28
Germany. Portugal and England
Said to Have Formed Plan
Whereby England Gets
Deiaeoa Bay.
SERVICES OF MAINE VICTIMS
Hay VIII Find Out About That
Flour Seizure Actor Reeds
Condition.


the Herald, from Berlin, says: Lokal
lAnzeiger publishes the contents OF
the German-English-P Portuguese secret
treaty. This double treaty will have
executive force as soon as the Swiss
jurists, Messrs. Blaesi. Hensler and
Goldau. have given decision in
Delagoa arbitration.
The decision, it is expected, will
be given in January or February and
probably be in favor of England, in
which case Portugal must pay Eng
land and America indemnity of l.
100000 sterling. England obtained,
in 1891, from Portugal the right of
pre-emption of Delagoa Bay. The
cession of Delagoa Bay to England
may therefore be expected March next
1T is possible that President Kruger
may now declare war on Portugal and
attack Delagoa Bay at once. In or
der to prevent interference by France
Or Russia, England concluded a secret
treaty with Germany regarding the
complete partition of the Portuguese
possession in Asia, that is to say,
Timor, Goa, Damaio, Macao and
Diu, with twenty thousand square
miles of territory and million in
habitants.
Germany further receives in Africa
all the Portuguese territory north Of
Mozambique, except strip three
miles for Cecil Rhodes trans-African
railway. For this the German gov
ernment will pay Portugal 25,OO0,OOO
marks. The surprising part Of the
statement of the Lokal Anzeiger, is
that it refers to Asia when it has
repeatedly been asserted at the for
eign office, that the treaty only refers
to Africa and did not refer to Asia.
England receives the remaining Afri-
can possessions in Portugal, which
contain two million square kilOme-
tres. and have thirteen million inhabi-
tants. The consent of Portugal to
this arrangement has already been OBJ
tanned in principle. The Lokal An
zeiger declares it has news from such
! a source that no dement, is possible.
London, Dec $3.50 many alleged
disclosures of the secret Delagoa Bay
agreements recently been submitted to
the British foreign Office that officials
have made it rule to neither deny
nor affirm them, and when ques-
toned today regarding the statements
made by the Lokal Anzieger, officials
adhered to this rule. But repre-
sentative of the Associated Press gath
cred alleged disclosures quite inaccu-
rate. A dispatch to the Times from
Berlin comments on Lokal Anzeiger's
treaty statement as follows: when it
is remembered that the two Portugal
Asiatic possessions, Goa and Damao,
form enclaves province of Bombay,
the statement of the Lokal Anzeiger
border on fantastic.
| oCll1nS DCC. GO-l 1C 0Ct man dOW ,
agency has issued a statement that
the assertions of the Lokal Anzeiger
were arbitrary and erroneous guess
work. Official circles of Berlin des-
cribe the statements made as quite
inaccurate.
Paris, Dec. 2S-The publication by
Lokal Anzeiger, of Berlin of the
secret treaty between Germany, Por
tugal and Great Britain, providing for
the partition of the Portuguese colo
ries, meets with no credence in eff
cial circles here. 1t is believed in
other quarters that an agreement be
! tween Great Britain and Germany may
. exist, outside of the understanding ar
rived at between them this year, as
, the outcome of negotiations to built
a telegraph line connecting Cape
Town with Cairo.