Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1896 — FOREIGN, [ARTICLE]

FOREIGN,

-■--London had an antr-German riot Monday night. Shops of German Jews in the Hast End were attacked and several German cloths were closed. ’ _ - It is reported that near Havana a pitched battle was fought, and that the insurgents v.h-fe routed by the bayonet, losing fifteen killed and 'many wounded. The troops suffered slight Josses-.- —- Jt_is said that_iiev.einsmce--t4ie days- rrt.England been so mightily' . extitvd.. The leading papers grow met-.■ belligerent in tone; the whole nation expresses. the greatest bitterness toward Germany for the Kaiser’s action in the Transvaal matter, and the latest apparently authentic report that France an 1 Russia will sustain the Emperor has but added fuel to the flames. The'war spied is high also in Germany. Press dispatches Saturday bore strangely contradictory news. One from London was to tlie effect that England was determined upon war: that the TransvJhl prisoners were to be held by the Boers as hostages; and that Parliament was to be summoned to declare war. Another from London asserts that the' Queen is in receipt of an autograph letter from the Gerwish nor intention to engage in war. Two earthquakes occurred in the Dis trict oLKhalkhal, Persia, the first Jan. 2. The large village of Janjabad was de"stfbyeff, several others were partially destroyed and 300 persons killed. The second occurred Jen. 5 and was felt over an area of 100 miles. The town of Goi was destroyed and a thousand houses were 'demolished. In addition great damage was done to many villages. The loss of life was very great. There were 800 killed in Goi alone, and large numbers of cattle and sheep also perished, . Berlin dispatch: At a special audience which Dr. W. J. Leyds, the Secretary of State of the Transvaal, had with Emperor William Tuesday his majesty declared that he would not recognize any claim of suzerainty over the Transvaal. Great Britain by the treaty of 1884 claims suzerainty over the Transvaal Republic. A semi-official denial was issued -of the statement from Cape Town, contained in a dispatch from the Times, of London, that Dr. W. J. Leyds, the Secretary of State for the Transvaal, with a secret fund at his disposal, had floated a German colonization company, with the intention Of introducing 5,000 German military settlers into the Transvaal. A special dispatch from Berlin says that Russia’s co-operation with Germany the Transvaal matter has been assured anil that France will aet with Russia. This, appart'iit.ly, tends to confirm the report of an anti-British alliance, and that the action of Emperor William toward the Boer republic was a thoroughly weighed step. The dispatch from Berlin to the ■that Germany desired only to protect German residents and Its consulate at Pretoria by dispatching an armed force from Delagoa Bay. and that np arrangement on the subject had previously been made with Portugal, tended to produce a better feeling. But this slight change for the better was counteracted by the receipt of a special dispatch from Pretoria, capital of the Transvaal, saying that the

Boers demanded the surrender of a 0 British rights and suzerainty dyer the Transvaal, and the pre-emption jot Delages Bay amt the cancelipg.of.lhe charter of the British South Africa Company. It Ja, farther stated that the Boers have arrested, on the charge of treason, eight leaders of the recent movement among the Uitlamlcrs at Johannesburg. <- . Dispatches received in Ixindon after midnight T ueß< i a y -from Berlin reiterate in terms which almost .compel belief that it is Germany's intention to declare the independence of the Transvaal republic. London morning papers credit the announcement, and (hey interpret that, it London journals were invited to meet Mr. Chamberlain Tuesday. The results of the inspiration received at these interviews are words that will send the country to arms as soon as they are read. The Gov - egnmeut aanqunces that several regiments from the First army corps will leave land at once for the' cape. A fleet has been ordered to Delagoa Bay, where German Cruisers are now lying. It is plainly intimated in the inspired editorials that England is prepared to deal both with the German emperor and with'any Dictator, plainly meaning Mr. Rhodes, who, may assert himself in British South Africa. These allusions strengthen the belief that a revolution has been attempted br is now existing in. Cape Colony under Rhodes’ leadership. The news of the surrender Of Johannesburg after being in the possession of the insurgents for three or four days is confirmed. The authority of the Boer government is fully re-established.

That the bitter anti-American utterances of the London Times and other newspapers of that city in connection with the’ Ven ezuehin, cbrnplication, which have been so lavishly cabled to this country, do not represent the real sentiments of the great-mass of the wage workers and toilers df the mother country is abundantly demonstrated by editorial utterances of the/weekly press in line with that element. ;In England, as in no other country, the ’wdijking class organs reflect rather than dictate the views and ideas of their constituencies, and hence their expressions of opinion may be accepted tfs those of the great army of wage workers into whose homes they enter. Reynolds’ Newspaper, the great radical organ, which goes every Saturday and Sunday into more than a million families, says: “We are bound to say that, in insisting on arbitration in this 'ease. President Cleveland is right; and ill objecting to It Lord Salisbury is wrong. It is not the question whether the Venezuelan government did or did not decline certain arbitrations gbout other territories in the past; ibis a question of what is right and politic now. We Should not refuse arbitration with Germany, or the United States itself. Why pounce on .this weak and helpless state and hold up, so to speak, a revolver at her throat? If numbers of Englishmen, as we are told, have settled on disputed territory, that is their affair, not ours. They went, with their eyes open, for gold, and it is not our business to every marauding Englishman who wants to line his poekets auQ bring his gold and his vulgarity with him to London. We sny again, let this matter be submitted to arbitration, and if the territory is really British it will be awarded to Great Britain. And we further say that heavy will be .the responsibility of the Brilish prime minister if he declines 10 arbitrate. England is unpopular enough, we might almost say detested enough, in most parts of the world as it is. We have n6t an ally in Europe, save bankrupt Italy, and our press still chooses to treat ■France.Jind Russia as hostile. If, while our hands are so full in the East, we - <lelißerately stir up animosity in the West also, we shall be encircled by an army of powerful foes and find ourselves Checkmated everywhere. Is this the object for which the British electors put Eord Salis bury, in power last July?”