Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-12-28
GREAT BRITAIN
GETS 7 ]. BAY
viii, Soon Have 5 ssess,,p
Of Delagoa rbor.
THE AGREEMENT MADE
With Germany and Portugal
Will Make It Master of South
African Situation
IT HAS LONG BEEN KNOWN
That in the End the Control of the
Bay Would Leave Portugal
Germany is Also a Gamer by the
Agreement.

New York. Dec. 2S.--A dispatch to the
Herald from Berlin says: The Lokal
Anzeiger publishes the contents Of the
German English Portugal secret trea y.
This double treaty will have force as soon
as the Swiss jurists, Messrs. Blaesi, Hen
sler and Goldau have given decision in
he Delagoa bay arbitration. The decis-
ion. it is expected, Will be given in jan
uary or February and will probably be
in favor Of England, in which case Por-
tugal must pay to England and Amer
lea an indemnity of 81 SOC, 900. England
obtained in 1891 from Portugal the right
of pre- -e,nption in Delagoa bay. The ces-
Sion of Delagoa bay to England may
therefore be expected in March next
1t is possible that President Kruger
may now declare war on Portugal and at
tack Delagoa at once. In order to prevent
any interference by France or Russia,
Engla nd concluded a secret treaty with
Germany regarding the complete parti-
ton of Portuguese colonial possessions.
Germany is to receive all Portuguese pos
sessions in Asia with 10000 square miles
of territory and a million Inhabitants.
Germany, further receives in Africa all
Portuguese territory north of Mozambi-
que except a strip of land three miles
wide for the purpose of the trans-Afri-
can railway.
Germany will pay Portugal $4,000, 900
marks. The surprising part i'm the state
ment of the Lokal Anzcger is that it re-
feis TO Asia when it has repeatedly been
asserted at the foreign office that the
treaty only refers to Africa and did not
refer to Asia. 1t must, however, be re-
mei,lbeled that the 1.okal Anzei%sr was
in position to publish the samoan
treaty "a hours before the official publ
ca ion took pace.
England receives the remaining Afri.
can possessions of Portugal which con-
tain 100000 square Kilometres ana have
$4,000, 900 Inhabitants The consent of
Portugal 10 this arrangement has already
been obtaincd in principle The Lokal
Anzeger declares ii has news frcm such
Il source that no dementi is possible.
That Great Britain would ultima tely
become the possessor of Delagoa bay has
long been known. 1t has been known
that for some years negotiations between
Portugal and Great Britain have trans
pred Domestic political cons ,derations
have deferred Portugal from parting with
these POSSESSIONS The present town of
Lorenzo Marques dates On.y from 1867
of the finest in the world, Rio and sydney,
and properly developed it would be- ONE
the maritime port of the whole CT the
basin of the LimrDEo river and of the
states occupying the plateau of South
Africa. Great Britain from 1920 onward
disputed claims Of Portugal to thc own
el ship of Del& goa bay and basei. its own
claims upon an occupation Of the Dutch,
of which the reveison fell to her. Capt.
OWeias. carrying out the surveys in 1873,
obtained a concession from the natives
chiefs Concerned in its shores. The dis
put was ultima ely referred to the a, bi-
trstion of the president of the French re-
public, Marshal MacMahon, WHO'S.
award in 1873 was given in favor of Por-
trg4l Brit tain, however, did not re'in-
uush her claims and she consoled herself
for the loss OF the actual ownership by
obtaining a right Of pre- -e.npton under
the Anglo -Portuguesc agree nient Of 1881.
Under this Instrument Great Britain
and Portugal agreed that in event Of "Gne
of the two powers proposing to part with
any of the territories to the south of the
Zambesi. the other shall be recognized
as possa ss:ng a preferential right to the
territories in question or any portion of
them.' This is held to give to Great Brit
ain the right of pie-cnption whenever
Pc.;ugal is in such financial straits as to
III cd to sell her rights in the b ay. She
was said to be in such difficulties last !
year aud only domestic political conSid-
ere tons in Lisbon then prevented her
acting upnn the agreement.