The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN' FRANCISCO CALL, SUND s JANUARY 12, 1896. EGGED ON BY RUSSIA Germany Said to Have Been |} Secretly Supported by the Czar. GREED OF THE NATIONS. | One Willing to Profit by the Utter Annihilation of Another. SOUTH AFRICAN MAELSTROM. ! Cecil Rhodes Reported to Have Planned the Formation of a Great Federation. Copyright, 1896, by the New York Times. LONDON, Exc., Jan. 11.—The German | Emperor continues to be uppermost in the British minds. This sedate and some- what cumbrous organism now and agair directs itself toward Dr. Jameson or Presi- dent Krueger, or even flutters briefly in the | direction of Washington, but it rever: ways to the Kaiser. Although a week | L al- elapsed, its anger burns brighter ever, but its bewilderment has creased. It still hesitates at t ng whether he is sponsible crank or a delibe Most of what happened in Gerr ing the week seems to supj theory. There has been a c cfficial or political demc sire to emphasize the tru Emperor's famous di other hand, from Bisn body of impor at all has showr something and add is obvious round to the ing, and tc taken in s 8 truculen Letters lete lack of tions of a de- | tone of the d, on the own, every made a sign o read into it | c meanings. It | word was sent | papers Monday to stop shout- | v that the English were mis- | that the telegram had | that o many, too, began to t the fact that the Kaiser | e to the Ministers be- of no such signiticance ght imagine, because he sters 1n such a state of cring- that they did not dream of ing from anvthing that he showed | , and now confine their services to | stater entirely to going round cau- after bim and undoing as much of ef he had wrought as was pos 1 later there seemed to be cer- | ns that the Emperor himself was | d at what he had done and was to let others patch up the best apology for his haste that they could manage. To-day’s reports that he has written a ontrite letter to his royal grandmother fit this theory that he is anxious to quiet the storm that his action has raised, and if that is really the case the English will find satisfaction in the feeling that his own people will punish him in good time for such recklessness or levity. But on the other hand what has been | pay, and then Krueger is expected to say before the assembled nations in a confer- | perfect facility with which this operation | without effe | going on outside of Germany suggests | much method in this young men’s mad- | ness. It is not disputed that his govern- | ment sounded that of Portugal last week on the question of the right of way for Germany to force through from Delagoa | v to the Transvaal. This in itself con- tutes an unfriendly act, which no For- eign Office can ignore. Again it is plain | that President Krueger at Pretoria is being advised from Berlin, where his Secretary | of State is closeted daily with the Em- peror and Hohenlohe. It is known by long and costly expe- rience that Krueger is an exceedingly able man, who needs no mental help from any- body in Germany or elsewhere. He will not refuse 1o pic > plums out of what- ever cake is offered to bim, but he will by no means commit himseli to cat it all. He would not saffer Germany to dictate any- thing to him, and his close, constant in- tercourse with Berlin can mean only that he has some plan by which Germany can serve him. England asks itself at once | what that plan may be, and these seems to be an obvious answer. Krueger has aiready in hand some large advantag: over England. He holds proofs of the chartered company’s scoun- | to overrun the republic, anu} | of its chief men in Africain as a score jail on the charge of high treason. He | med and spoiling fora bhas the Boers all @ t and the cowardly Uitlanders dis- and blanched in terror. He has a | ied even to Dr. Jameson, and thus | ng for England to explain proposes to do in the way of for and punishing her free- booters, oming her stock-jobbing Uit- 1 Jander traitors and recompensing the Boers for their trouble and expense. It is ily doubted that he has demandeda | higher price than England is willing to | ® that under the circumstances he must ap- | peal to the general opinion of Europe and | ask Germany’s aid in laving his hard case ence which might, also, while it is about t, discuss Egypt and other Anglo-African questions. It was with this probable sequence of events plainly in view that England swiftly called out what officials describe as the particular squadron, but what every naval man calls the North Sea fiecet. The was performed has swelled every British bosom with pride, and the statement that three more such extra fleets can be got to- | gether in a week, if necessary, makes the | whole island beam with self-satisfaction. | It was a stupid lie to say that a London crowd had insulted and shown violence to German residents here, but it is wholly true that England is a unit on the ques- tion of blowing Germany out of the water if she insists on interfering in South Africa. Itisapparent that tbe Germans more or less realize this fact and respect it. It remains to be seen if their Emperor also graspsit. If he should feel hound to go | ahead it is already clear that nothing short of a recession of Alsace and Lorraine would guarantee his immunity from at- ack on the French frontier. This, we he could not discuss with ns or even with himse!f. rery sick about the whole thing. is doubtful and suspicious and ains as usual inscrutable. Tt is eved here that she is tacitly encourag- | irg William to adventurous courses. If he | were swashed in the process and his em- pire with him Russia would profit rather than lose by the fact, and meanwhile would enjoy a free hand to prosecute her own enterprises in the Levant and far East ve English resistance. This consideration inclines the English Foreign Office to suspect St. Petersburg of egging on Berlin. T An English officer who returned from | upon and reprinted and until to-daythc] China a fortnight ago tells me that it is advocatesof some large and comprehensive | well known there that the Russians are | arrangement for a permanent arbitration busily at work on a railroad which is to | tribunal have been having things much | would run from Nermschinsk across the Siberian frontier to the Manchurian town of Tsitso- kar, thence in two branches to Viadivo- tok and the Pechili Gulf. He says, more- over, that of his own knowledge the Lon- don officials are perfectly aware of what is being done. Tt will be remembered that when the rumor of this intention came from Hong- kong last summer, and the English | showed that they would resist by force any uch attempt, the Russian diplomats dis avowed the design in most formal and explicit fashion, ster is so close to Lord Salisbury that his public denunciation of Russia as respon- sible for the failure to do anything further for the Armenians becomes almost an official utterance. This consciousness that Russia was the real stumbling-block has been slowly formingin the British mind, but the Duke is the first one in semi-an- thority whbo has said so. It may be doubted, too, if he would have been so | frank had Lord Salisbury not become con- vinced that Russia was definitely hostile to England elsewhere than on the Levant. Urder these circumstances there is some loose talk here about trying to make a Russian alliance. English sentiment, however, is over- whelmingly against such an attempt. The English would rather have the Rus- sians take Germany’s side than their own, for they instinctively feel that they would have to ficht Russia afterward, anyway, and that to fight two empires at once give to them the sympathy of Western Europe and of the world in gen- eral s to the strictly British aspects of the outh African maelstrom strange rumors are current in the city and filtering through clubland. It is said that Cecil Rhodes has commanded that $500,000,000 be put up by a syndicate here for the pur- vose of rushing the Transvaal, overwheim- | ing the Orange Free State, declaring a federation of all South Africa, and if Eng- land refused recognition ecutting the painter off-hand. He resigned the premier- ship tefore the newsof Jameson’s raid was published in Cape Town, solely to be free for this enterprise. Four days ago friends of his here were quietly giving out word that he would be President of the South African republic by midsummer. Whether the seizure of his brother with Leonard, Phillips, Dunbar and the rest has quite knocked the bottom out of this project is uncertain, but that it existed 1s, T am told, beyond auestion. if the German complication tlows over there are likely to be revelations of finan- cial and politieal corruption underlying this whole affair which thing of the kind in history. Chamberlain meanwhile has made the greatest personal score of a generation. He carries himself like a second Oliver Crom- well and the whole nation gapes at him in dumb admiration. To-day’s Cabinet coun- cil, which was the first since autumn, briefly recalled to the public the existence of other Ministers, but by to-morrow it will be again Chamberlain first and the rest nowhere. Save for a list of *official denials that the situation in the Transvaal is worse, which may mean anything, it1s useless to expect that any news will leak out about the Cabinet meeting or its de- cisions until they are exhibited in action, Discussion about Venezuela in the pa- pers is still of great bulk, but it manifestly proceeds under the disadvantage that the public is thinking of something else. Such few expressions of racial sympatny for England and her Continental trouble as have been perm itted to get across the wire from America have been eagerly seized he Duke of Westmin- | will dwarf any- | | their own way in the press, To-day the Times, however, feels im- pelled to call these people amiable vision- | aries, and compliments its New York cor- | respondent on having poured on them | such a wholesome shower of cold water. The dispatch alluded to explains at a column’s length ail the minute diflicul-' ties in the way of such an arrangement. | This criticism is useful, no doubt, but | Lord Playfair much better reflects the | pirit of the hour, at least over here, by | | more than a column of warm advocacy of | the general principle, which he dces not | doubt, if once accepied, will readily sub- | ordinate minor difficulties to their proper place. Even the Times reiterates its call | for official papers on the boundary dis- pute, and also suggests that if President Cleveland had asked for one arbitration up to the Schomburg line, with the proviso that if Venezuela won this England would | then consent to a second arbitration as to that line itself, it would not have been refused, but the whole debate is getting so | |much in the air thatitis hardly worth | | while to follow its development, | A month from to-day. when Parliament meets, there will be something tangible from the British official point of view to consider, and probably not before. The arrest of Little Rosenthal, who by | | the sheer vitality and energy of 'his native | impudence has been able to impese him- self on Le Figaro and on Parisian journal- ism generally as an authority on foreign politics, creates a great stir in Paris, but | need scarcely be a surprise. For a long | time I have been told this Jacques St. Cerc was swimming in queer waters and ulti- | mately would be landed high and dry. It ay be that there are some honest anti- English journalists in Paris, but it has come to be the rule that the more violently a Parisian writes and assails England the more certain he is to turn up as a black- mailer and the creature of thieving syndi- cates. It isunderstood that some others equally well known have been dipping their fin- | gers in poor Max Lebaudy’s millions, and T hear also that the Dossier of the journal- ists who have been levying blackmail on Monte Carlo are also in the hands of the authorities, and this contains a very noble name, indeed. With these rumors added to the approaching opening of the Panama lists, it may be understood why the Bour- geois Ministry continues to hold more | than its own. ‘ Although Paul Verlaine lived in his most mature years as a social outcast, his funeral was attended by a distinguished | literary assemblage, including many | academicians, and Francois Coppee spoke over his tomb of his immortality being | more certain than theirs. In England ! this could not have happened, because a | man of genius here must also be respect- able. Respectability hasits penalties none the less. To-day Englana has read with literal amazement eight doggerel stanzas by the new poet laureate on Jameson's ride, | which fail beneath the level of ordinary | country weeklies' thymes. The poem is in outrageous taste from a public point of view, but that is less noticeable than its grotesque literary demerits. It turns the author's appointment into a national hu- miliation before it isa fortnight old, and already the radical wags have shaped questions from it to ask of Balfour when Parliament meets, Harorp FREDERIC. Abyssinians Repulsed. ROME, Itary, Jan. 11.—The Govern- ment has received a dispatch from Mass wah stating that a force of 60,000 Abyssin- ians had made another attack uvon the Italian stronghold at Makalle and were repulsed with heavy losses. No details are given. { KAISER WILLIAMCOOL Not Disturbed by Diatribes of the English Press and People. APPEARS INDIFFERENT. Does Not Believe There Is Any Possibility of War With Great Britain, EXCHANGE OF COMMUNICATIONS | Disagreements Not Regarded Serious Enough to Cause a Clash Between the Two Nations, BERLIN, GERMANY, Jan. 11.—The whole tone of the information that is capable of being gleaned from Government papers | points to an early restoration of amicable relations between Germany and England. 1f the Emperor, his Ministers or the Ger- man people were influenced in the least by the savage and unrestrained language indulged in by the English newspapers, as shown by the summaries of their articles telegraphed here, an open rupture between the two Governments might be imminent. But the Kaiser has for a long time recog- nized the irresponsibility of the diatribes of the English press and the English peovle, and, though he is deeply irritated thereat, he does not seem to belieye that there is any possibility whatever of an outbreak of war between Germany and Great Britain over such a question as that involved in the Transvaal disturbances. If the Emperor has any motives beyond mere interference in behalf of a Govern- ment asking his assistance in prevailing | agzainst an alien revolution and for the purpose of protecting German interests, there is no indication here that would afford the slightest clew to them. The semi-official newspapers discuss the question of the isolation of England, but they make not the slightest allusion to any alliance against Great Britain which the French and English press regard as being vrojected. In Berlin the tone of the Foreign Office concerning the excitement of the English press and public and the English naval demonstrations and exhibition of sea strength is not really akin to contemptu: ous indifference. There isa constant ex- change of communications between the two Governments, with a consequent dis- closure of a difference of policy at various points of contact apart from the Trans- vaal; butnone of these disagreements in- volve such a radical disturbance of the re- lations of the two powers as would call for an increase of armament on either side. In official circlés the view taken of Lord | Salisbury’s fleet demonstrationsis that the English Premier is playing to the mob and that his attitude cannot mean an at- tempt to influence the policy of the Em- peror, who, Lord Salisbury well knows, will take itsdevelopment unaffected in the slightest degree by menaces or demonstra- tions from any quarter. The North German Gazette prints an article which is obviously inspired and which reiterates the German contention | that the South African republic under the | convention of 1884 was no longer subject to | the suzerainty of the British Government, toria, and as proof of this assertion calls | attention to the fact that since 1884 the | Transvaal Government has appointed En- voys and Consuls to foreign states without consulting the Government of Great Britain, and the Boer Government also senta delegate as an independent power to the International Postal Congress at Vienna without the slightest complaint from England that such a proceeding on | the part of the Tran: Governinent was | in excess of its authority and an infringe- ment upon the rights of Great Britain. The semi-official press generally refrains from any expansive comment upon the | war preparations which the English Gov- | ernment is so ostentatiously making, but the journals which are freehanded and not hampered by any official obligations or connections do not. The Vossische Zeitung asks the ques- tion: “Whom is England threatening, | Germany or th nsvaal republic?” The National Zeitung attaches no spe- cial importance to England’s naval dem- onstrations, but suggests that the Govern- ment ought to ask the meaning of them, nevertheless. The Tageblatt says it is understood that Count von Hatzfeldt, German Embassador to Great Britain, has been instructed by the German Government to inform Lord | Salisbury that these manifestations are supposed to be directed against Germany and are likely to provoke serious conse- quences. The Boersen Courier concludes that the English excitement has well nigh fizzled outand the crisis is drawing to an end, everything tending toward peace. Apart from Prussian opinions, which the Kaiser unquestionably represents, the sentiment pervading the whole of the Ger- man States continues to uphold the Em- peror’s action in interfering in the Trans- vaal, and it would be a bitter national dis- appointment if the Imperial Government should retire a single step from the posi- tion it originally assumed. The entire press of Bavaiia, Saxony and Wurtemberg and even the Gotha Gazette and the Co- | burg tte, the official organs of the | Duke of -Coburg and Gotha (Duke of | Edinburgh) are warm in the approval of | the course the Emperor has taken, though | from no quarter is war advocated. The National Zeitung accurately reflects the universal feeling upon the continuance of good relations between Germany and | England, saying that Germany would be found oftener than hitherto allied with England’s opponents in disputes affecting | English interests until the British Govern- ment shows 1itself convinced that Ger- many’s friendship is more desirable than her enmity, and that German interests land. The Prussian court has gone into mourn- | ing for the period of a month for Prince Alexander of Prussia, whose funeral took place yesterday, and the programme of the season’s functions is consequently altered. The royal theaters were closed for three aays after the aeath of the Prince, on January 4. Itis reported that the expected pres- ence of Queen Victoria and the Prince of ‘Wales at the marriage of Princess Alex- ot Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Prince Ernest of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, is now doubtful, owing to the attitude of the Em- peror and the strain occasioned by Ger- many’s interference in the Transvaal. Dr. Beelaerts von lokland, envoy of Netherlands and France, has returned to The Hague from Paris, whither he wentto need fear but little from the policy of Eng- i andra of Coburg, daughter of the Duke | the Transvaal republic to Germany, the | confer with the French Government in re- gard to the situation in the Transvaal. He will return to Berlin at the special in- vitation of the Emperor to attend the fetes on the occasion of the Emperor's birthday, January 27. Dr. Schweninger is resolutely opposed to Prince Bismarck coming to Berlin from | Friedrichsruhe on January 18 to take part in the celebration of the twenty-fifth anni- versary of the proclamation of the German empire, and if the weather is adverse th Emperor will co-operate with others in ad- vising the Prince, for the sake of his health, to submit to the dictum of his old physician and absent himself from the fetes. A new decoration has been created for distribution on January 18 t5 persons who were prominently associated with the foundation of the empire. The day will be a national holiday, and Berlin and other German cities will be decorated with flags by day and illuminated at night. Campaign Against the Arabs. LONDON, Jan .11.—H. H. John- son, Imperial Commissioner in tire Briti Central African protectorate, reports that he carried on in December a successful ampaign against the Arabs north of Lake anza. Two hundred and fourteen Arabs were killed in battle and Chief Mloze was captured and executed, Several stockades were captured. The British force lost about forty Indian and black soldiers. SRR Canada Has Agreed. OTTAWA, Oxr., Jan. 11.—Sir Mackenzie Bowell authorizes the statement that there seems to be a misapprehension as to Can- ada’s position in regard to the treaty of arbitration of Bering Sea seizure claims, The Premier states positively that Canada has agreed to the terms of the treaty and has promptly forwarded her assent to the British authorities, the document having been sent direct to the Colonial Office from Ottawa. S The Ashantes Expedition. LONDON, Ex6., Jan. 11.—Advices from the British Ashantee expedition say that Prince Henry of Battenberg, who accom- vanied the expedition, is suffering from a slight attack of fever and has returned from the front to the headquarters of the expedition, in charge of a surgeon. Spies report that Coomassie, the Ashantee capi- tal, is quiet and that there are no soldiers there. ] Reorganized the Cabinet. OTTAWA, OxTaRIO0, Jan. 11.—Sir Mac- kenzie Bowell has succeded in reorganizing | his Cabinet. Who his new Ministers are and what positions they will fill is not given out. The Cabinet may be put down as a temporary one so as to permit of the work of the session going on when Parlia- ment meets Tuesday next. AT A SILFER MASS MEETING. Pointed Criticism of the Financial Mis- management. BR., Jan. 11.— A free-silver ‘mass-mee!iug. non-partisan in character ;and largely attended, was held to-night. | The principal addresses were made by | Governor Holcomb and ex-Congressman Bryan. Each devoted some time to the | latest bond issue and criticised what was | termed the financial mismanagement which required such a loan. At the con- clusion of the speeches a local free-silver league was organized and officers chosen. Similar leagues are being organized all over the State. LINCOLM S After en Years. NEW YORK, N. Y., Jan. 11.—A Herald | special from Milford, Pa., says that Wil- liam Depue of Bushkill, who went into a | cataleptic fit seven years ago, and who all | that time has been 1n a practically uncon- scious condition, has returned to con- sciousness, and, except that be is nearly | blind, seems physically in good condition. Furnishings Department. HE FAMOUS UTOPIA Derby Ribbed Childrer ter in the market; all s T BLACK no bet- Hose zes, Monday, 12} Cents. VIGHT ROBES FOR M PRIDE OF the West muslin, cut inches long, embroidered, continuous fas- tenings and gussets, 45 Cents. EN’S h UNDERWEAR — ABOUT 600 JOME RIGH dozen in cadet 1 camel’s-hair, D smart Lo Ul- splendid ment awers tailor-fash- sters, made frc joned. Monday, NOT A SIGN ON OUR BIG BUILDING TO INDICATE WHAT’S GOING ON WITHIN. VW E DON'T HAVE TO PUT SIGNS OU city to the other and you'll find nothing but signs, and not within; with us the bargai lame excuses for holding such sales ar to stop and think. to get rid of 'em, and the onl You know how we do thi gains on their signs. The town is full of ‘em. ns are within and not on the signs. mply laughable to any one that will take ti me With us our only object for holding housekeepers we have gone housecleaning and wherev OST STORES HANG THEIR BAR ou can go from one end of the clearance signs, but the bargainsareon the And the this sale is that like good er we find small lines we want way we know to get rid of 'em is to cut the pricein two. ngs—never by halves. Juvenile Department. Scotches, where a fpw of a kind 35 Cents. : ranging in size for lads between the TR e S . of 5 and 15; aw- MEN'S HIGH-GRADE VICUNA DN-| y Choice goods; M gerwear, splendid garments; haven’t some values among their peer in town at $1. Monday, S b itofsgand 37 : Monda 50 Cents. ‘ $3.50 HE FAMOUS GLASTONBURY | Health Underwe: n camel’s hair and n atural; garments that have a reputation from Maine to California for being the highest class unde de; sold about town at §1.50. with us, 1 95 Cents. : NITIAL HANDKERCHIEFS — THE balance left over from the Hoiiday bus Dess; about 50 dozen in all; they wer ‘Monday, 10 Cents. DI 'S HIGH-GRADE MERINO HOSE, cadet, tan, camel’s-hair and natural! soft as a glove on the foot. Monday, 15 Cents. Juvenile Depariment. gOME AWFULLY W Swell Suits for young men in blue and black Cheviots, | cleverly tailored gar- ments, but we've | only a few of each | individual style, so | we’ve taken 'em and | pat ‘em all together; | they’re for young! \y men between the | ages of 14 and 19| years. Now smile | when you hear the price, $3.50, | Don’t need 1o put | signs over our bui'd- | ing when we offer | such values, do we? | RAPHAEL’S | (INCORPORATED). ERISCO’S BIGGEST, BUSIEST STORE. The Place Where the Big Masses Trade, “71‘2 VE FOU D SOMETHING LIKE 2000 Suits which we call odds, all bigh | class goods, this season’simportations, bt sold down to a few of a kind. Among’em are some very swell Reefer Suits; none prettier in America; also among ‘which you will find some very swell Double- Breasted Suits, for short trousers boys be- tween the aces of 5 and 15. It's a great gathering of great Suits. Your pick Monday from either Reefer or Double-Breasted Suit at --$2.50-- RAPHAEL’S (INCORPORATED). Sers g Sa, Ay "HTER&“ (:’ncsrpnrated) e Yo, == , 9,14, 13 and Juvenile Hat Department. HOSE JAUNTY BLUE YACHT CAPS for little fellows with silver bands, with gold bands; awfully swell affairs. Monday, 25 Cents. You know what you bave to pay for ’em in other stores ? . | POSITIVELY TRE LasT RETIRINC SALE THIS YEAR cune Tu THE St TER _— Juvenile Department. HOSE SWEET sittle Tot Snits; we're making a clean sweep of all of 'em. We have found quite a number where we've only & 1 ew of akind, among which you will find blues, pretty Scotches, all very choice goods. ‘We've made one lot of the whole thing and say, Monday, --$2.50-~ Ages3to7. Juvenile Department. HE LITTLE MAR- iner, an awfully swell Long Pants Reefer Suit, made from fine blue vacht cloths; hercules braid on edges and col- lar; for iads between the agesof 3and 10, Just a :few ' of ’em. Monday they’ll be --$3.50-- You know what other stores charge for like suits? §6.00, and we're not given to exaggerat- ing, but utter things just as we find them. RAPHAEL’S i (INCORPORATED), 1> Kearny Street. . |» spy rmavemos meuse now Men’s Suit Department. The manager of our Men’s Suit Department clamors for | some space to tell his friends | about an item too important to | go unnoticed, and right he is, | because it is very important. | After such a big business done by us during the holidays | we have sold down a great many of our popular and very choicest of Men’s Tailor-made Suits to a | few of a kind. These garments represent the very fines: fabrics, | all stylishly tailored, among which you-will find suits that | have been selling up to $18, | which, to effect a speedy disap- | pearance of em, we have tagged | ——$10.00— | Among this line of suits you {will find some of those very ifashionable black Clay worsteds {in Cutaways and Sacks. You {will also find those fine steel- |gray Clay worsteds, those fine {blue and black Cheviots that you see worn so much by the stylish dressers about town. These are all high-class gar- | ments. Few tailors can equal | ’em. Monday your pick at —$10.00— For a little idea of what great values they are, take a trip to- day and see our window around the corner. Right there under the glare of the daylight the values will speak the story bet- ter than we can tell it. RAPHAEL’S (INCORPORATED). 4 The Starg That Does What It Advertises.