The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-29
CEss1oN OF DELAGoA BAY.


German Sema-Omcial Paper Assefte
That England Has Secured 1t
From Portugal.
NEW YORK, Dec. IA dispatch to the
Herald from Berlin says: The Lokal
Anseiser publishes the contents OF the
German English Portuguese secret treaty.
This double treaty will have executive
force as soon az the Swiss jurists Messrs.
Riaesi, Hensler and Goldau. have given q
decision in the Delagoa bay arbitration.
The decision, It is expected. will be given
In January or February. and will probably
be In favor Of England. in which case
Portugal must pay to England and
America an indemnity Of n.s0o0o0
England obtained in 1891 from Portugal
the right of prescription in Deiagoa bay.
The cession Of De!agoa bay to England
may, therefore. be expected in March
next.
II Is possible that President Kruger may
now declare war on Portugal, and attack
Deiagoa at once.
Secret Treaty with Germany.
IN order to prevent any interference BY
France or Russia, England concluded
secret treaty with Germany regarding the
complete partition Of the Portuguese CO.
lonial possessions. Germany Is to receive
ali Portuguese possessions in Asia, with
10000 square miles of territory and mil-
lion inhabitants.
Germany further receives in Africa all
the Portuguese territory north OF the
Mozambique except strip OF land three
miles wide for Mr.. Cecil Rhodes trans
African railway For this the German
government viii pay Portugal D.Oo.ooo
marks.
The surprising part in the statement Of
the Lokal Anzeiger is that 1t refers to Asia,
when It has repeatedly been asserted at the
foreign office that the treaty only refers
10 Africa and did not refer to Asia. 1t
must, however, be remembered that the
Lokal Anzeiger was in a position to publish
the Samoan treaty twenty-four hours before
the official publication took place.
England receives the remaining African
possessions of PORTUGAL which contain two
million square kilometers and have 13.00o,-
900 inhabitants
The consent of PORTUGAL to this arrange
ment has already been obtained in princi-
pie.
The Lokal Anzeiger declares It has news
from such a source that no dement, Is pos
: sible.
what England Will Get.
That Great Britain would ultimately be-
come the possessor of Delagoa bay has
long been expected. 1t has been known
for some years that negotiations for the
transfer have with more or less secrecy
been carried on between Portugual and
Great Britain for transfer. Domestic and
political considerations have deferred Por-
tugual from parting with one of her most
r< ,pth a
prising IL Great Britain, under the present
stress Of circumstances, acted upon the ne
Rotiations of the last few years and pressed
for the execution of the understanding be-
tween the two countries.
Good Harbor There.
The present town of I.ourenzo MARQUEE,
dates only from 1867. The harbor has been
compared with two of the finest in the
world Rio and Sydney, and properly devel-
oped 1t would become the maritime port Of
the whole of the basin of the Limpopo river
ana of the states occupying the plateau Of
South Africa
Great Britain Claimed II.
Great Britain, from 1920 onward, dis
puted the claims Of Portugal to the own
ership Of Delagoa bay and based it's own
claims upon an occupation of the Dutch.
of which the reversion fell to her. Capt.
Owens carrying out the surveys In 1923.
obtained concession from the native
chiefs concerned in its shores. The dis
pute was ultimately referred to the ar
bitration Of the president n the French
republic, Marshal MacMahon. whose
award, In 1875, was given to Portugal.
Great Britain, however. did not relinquish
her claims, and she consoled herself for
the loss of the actual ownership by OBJ
timing a right Of presumption under the
Anglo Portuguese agreement of 1891.
Under this instrument Great Britain
and Portugal agreed that in event OF