Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-01-09
EUROPE Is UNEASY.
DELAGOA BAY MAY CAUSE IN
TERNATIONAL TURMOIL.
Events Show the Necessity of En-
glands Taking Immediate Possession
France and Russia Are Believed
Allied Against British Purchase.

glands Taking Immediate Possession
France and Russia Are Believed
Allied Against British Purchase.
London correspondents Thursday stat
ed that under The secret stipulation of
the treaty it has been announced that
Germany viii take the Asiatie colonies
under Portugars rule and the territory
north of the Zambesi river. Also Eng
land to take possession of Delagoa Bay.
The Lokal Anzeiger states that Por-
tugal has already agreed to sell Ger
many her entire Asiatic possessions, COM
prising 10000 square kilometers and l.
100000 Inhabitants, and TO England her
entire African possessions, comprising
100000 square kilometers and 10000,
| 600 inhabitants. Germany, however, re
ceives some land in Africa north of the
| Zambesi river, excepting strip three
miles wide which Cecil Rhodes requires
for his projected railway from the cape
| to Cairo. The Lokal Anzeiger also says
( that the treaty secures Delagoa Bay to
| Great Britain against any opposition
from the powers. Germany pays 20
| 100000 marks to Portugal. The paper
also says that in 1891 Great Britain &c,
| quired the right to Delagoa Bay. 1t is
possible now that President Kruger may
| declare war on Portugal and attack Della
| goa at once.
| There can be no dispute of the fact
that the possession of Delagoa Bay is go
ing to be the beginning of interna-
tional turmoil. The London Daily Mail
says: The Portuguese. Government has
for great many years owed us several
million pounds sterling, which, for friend
| ly reasons we never pressed for repay
ment. The lease of Delagoa Bay at the
| present time, if only for twelve months,
would Indicate that they had not alto
gether lost sight of the fact that one
good turn deserves another. If they have
| lost sight of that fact then it is time we
ceased our benevolent policy in that quar-
teri
| Coupled with the above a telegram
from Cape Town to the Daily Mail says:
Beyond question there is a steady and
| continuous stream of recruits for the
| Transvaal passing through Delagoa Bay
| disguised as civilians, crews of merchant
| vessels, members of continental Red
| Cross and other non-combatant corps.
! 1T is suggested that Great Britain
should seize a temporary port at Delagoa
Bay and also the railway leading to the
| Transvaal. Otherwise the war is likely
to be Indefinitely prolonged"
! The Daily Mail prints a particularly
hot roast ON the Government for the con-
| duct of the war. Sir Michael Hicks
Beach, chancellor of the exchequer; Lord
| Landsdowne, the war minister, and Com
| mander-in-chief WolseIey, ali come in for
! a share of the Nails attack. The paper
says: THE reason for British failure in
| South Africa is that our men are provid-
| ed with inferior artillery; owing to Hicks
| Beachs skinfint policy mules and wag-
| ons necessary for the transport of huge
/ quantities of stores are not yet on the
scene; owing TO the laundering of either
! Lord Landsdowne or Lord Wolseley, an
| army of foot soldiers have been sent out
| to face a defending force of mounted
men in a country and kind of Warfare
| in which infantry, unaccompanied by
large bodies of cavalry, have no chance
| whatever. We have enough examples to
| fill a blue hook daily. We do not want
| to swap horses while crossing a stream,
! but we do want incompetent men remov-
! ed from the sphere of their plumbers.
| Either Landsdowne or Wolseley should
go, and Hicks Beach should make way
for a fnancier able to manage the huge
money affairs of the war"
= The dispatch of the major part of the
| Fifth division with Gen. Warren to Ma
! tai bears out the statement that Gen.
Bui er would continue operations in Ma
| tai Independent of Gen. Roberts, who
viii devote himself to the situation in
Cape Colony. The Fifth division num-
| bers 10000 men, and of the eight bat
talions composing it FIVE are now en- route
! to Buffers camp Gen. Warren and staff
| left Pietermaritzburg for the front Dec.
/ %, and have probably already arrived
| at Chieveley camp. 1t is believed here
| that upon the arrival of the reinforce
| ments Butler will make another attack
on the Beers position. 1t is not CON
| sidered likely that he will again attempt
| to force the Beers from the center, but
| will rather plan flank operation, to be
followed by direct assault near the
bridge aided by the 5000 fresh troops
of the Fifth division
Winston Churchill, who has rejoined
| the British column at Chieveley, sends
| a description of the Beers position,
which is sufficiently discouraging from
! the English point of view. He says:
The position held by the Beers is Of ex-
| traordinary strength-high hills lined
with tiers Of trenches and galleries ris-
ing from the bank of the almost unford-
! able Tugela river, with a smooth plain
before it, all over which the Beers have
mounted many powerful guns, dominate
ing all points of attack. The river fords
are commanded by conyerging musl1etry
| fro -