Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-12-28
ENGLAND EXPANDING
Said to Have Made a Secret Treaty
to Acquire Delagoa Bay andPor-
tugese Territory,
OFFICIALS NON COMMITTAL
France and Germany Appear to Place
Little Oredence in the Newspaper Re-
ports Concerning the Details
Of the Treaty,

| New YORK, december lo.---A uiSpdtCi
| to the Herald from Berlin says: The
Lokal Anzeiger publishes the contents
of the German English Portuguese Sc
cret treaty. This double treaty will have
jurists, Messrs. Blaesi, Hensler ant
Goldau, have given a decision in the
Delagoa arbitration. The decision, it Is
expected, will be given in January OF
February, and probably be in favor OF
| England, in which case Portugal must
pay England and Germany an indemni.
| ty of G1900,000 England obtained In
| 1891 from Portugal the right of pre-
emption of Delagoa bay. The cession OF
Delagoa bay to England may, there
fore, be expected in March next. 1t Is
possible President Kruger may now de-
clare war on Portugal and attack Del
agoa bay at once.
| In order to prevent interference by
France or Russia, England concluded a
secret treaty with Germany regarding
a complete partition of the Portuguese
possessions in Asia; that is to say, I'll
NOR, Goa, Damaio, Macao and Diu, with
10000 square miles of territory and L.
100000 inhabitants. Germany further
receives in Africa all Portuguese terri
tory north of Mozambique, except a
strip three miles wide for Cecil Rhodes
Transafrican railway. For this the
German government will pay Portugal
n o,xc ,.ictp NJ of
the statement of the Lokal Anzedger Is
that it refers to Asia, when it has re-
peatedly been asserted at the foreign
office that the treaty only refers to
Africa, and did not refer to Asia.
England receives the remaining Afri-
can possessions of Portugal, which con.
tain 100000 square kilomeAters, and
have 100000 inhabitants. The consent
of Portugal to this arrangement has al
ready been obtained. The Lokal An
zeiger declares it has the news from
such source no denial is possible.
London, December $3.50 many al
legged disclosures Of secret Delagoa bay
agreements have recently been submit
officials have made it a rule neither to
deny nor affirm them, and when ques-
toned to-day regarding the statements
Of the Lokal Anzeiger, the officials ad-
EzlaHred to-this rule. But a representative
Of the Associated Press gathered that
the @lseged disclosures were quite mac
curate. A dispatch to the Times from
Berlin comments on the Lokal Anzeiger
treaty statement as follows:
When 1t is remembered that the two
Damao, form enclaves in the province
Of Bombay, the statements of the Lokal
Anzeiger border ON the fantastic"
Paris, December 28.-The publication
by the Lokal Anzeiger Of Berlin of a Sc
cret treaty between Germany, Portugal
and Great Britain providing for the par
tition Of Portuguese colonies meets no
credence in official circles here. 1t is be-
lieved in other quarters that an agree
ment between Great Britain and Ger
many may exist outside of the under
standing arrived at between them this
year as to the outcome of negotiations
to build a telegraph line connecting
Cape Town with Cairo.
Berlin, December 2S.--A German news
agency has issued statement that the
assertions of the Lokal Anzeiger were
arbitrary and erroneous guesswork The
official circles of Berlin describe the
statements made as quite inaccurate.
Washington, December 2S.-Nothing
is known here of the reported inten-
tion of Great Britain and Germany ir
the partition of Portuguese East Africa
between them, but the officials attach
no credence to the story.