The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-01-25
TRYING TO PREVENT RUPTURE
Iansdowne Will Stay With Germany as Long as 1t
Is Possible 10 Do So.
WILL NOT OFFEND UNITED STATES
And " the Kaiser Persists In His Policy OF oneein9
Affronts Britain Will Withdraw from the ALL
auce Without Much Further Ado
fsneeial to The Post.l

1o,dor January g4-While outward harmony
continues to prevail between England and Germany
with respect to Venezuela, the alliance has recently
undergone severe strain. The ltimed violence OF
the German warships has moved Lord Lahsdo"he'
the foreign minister institute immediate inquiries
into the circumstances of the case Won Meter
Mich the German ambassador telegraphed to Berlin
for information Baron Won Rchthofen replied that
tho imperial government awaited details from the
scene Of action but was confident that the German
commodore attacked the Venezuelan fort only as the
result Of serious proyocation With TINS alspa1ch
before them Lord Lansdowne and Count Meternlch
had an interview 1t is impossible TO tell what passed
between them but If Lord Landowners remarks re-
Elected on the tactics Of the kaisera naval aubordi-
mates they must have bordered the character Of
protest
One consideration is operating powerfully to keen
tho British government inside the tracks of the An
Go German alliance. Lord Landowners original puT-
pose was TO heal the breach between the British and
German nations and to remove what he believed TO
be a constant menace to peace. The KING sym
pathized with this object and the whole cabinet ac
ouiesced in Lansdownes plans The foreign minister
olings to the hope that his object may yet be real
tied He thinks that if it is he will emerge from
the pending complications with his diplomatic repu
tation intact Consequently. seconded by his col
Leagues he intends postpone actual rupture with
Germany as long as possible always determined.
estrange the United States. Amy wanton offense 10
the United States the part Of Germany would
cause Great Britain disassociae herself from the
kaisers policies The foreign office and the state
department are in regular communication and there
IS reason to believe that they understand each other
Both Engshmen and Americans seem hypersen-
stive with regard to the developments on the coast
of South America" said dipomatst OF the German
embassy to the correspondent this morning. Sure
y German warships during a state of could not
roaE ahl bn Il KIDD
by the enemy. The forts Of the Venezueans were
the nstigators of the engagement at San Carlos
The Germans took merely such action the pro
preties OF the and the exgencies Of the block
ads demanded.
1t strikes Germans somewhat strange that
Englishmen should be asserting and over again
that Great Britain is bound hand and foot to Ger
many We thought that the binding power of tbs
Anglo-German alliance mutual contract II Is
euuisided. Great Britain is more bound TO Ger
many than Germany bound to Great Britain no
are the conditions onerous in the case thar
IN the other All talk about the kaiser wishing t
exceed the bounds of reason in South America, par
tienlarly as to give cause Of uneasiness to Tn
United States, is contrary to facts