BRITON V. BOER

Southland Times, Issue 14814, 15 December 1900, Page 2

BRITON V. BOER

GERMANY STRICTLY NEUTRAL. DE WET STILL ON THE WING. NO MISTAKING RUSSIAN AND GERMAN SENTIMENTS. AX IMPROVEMENT ALLIANCE AT DELAGOA. [United Prkss Association — By Elkcthic TKLKdRAI'II— Coi'YRKJIIT.] London, Dec. 13. The s.s. Orient, with Australian troops, ha.« left Capetown. Germany has stopped tho delivery of the guns manufactured by the Ehrhardt Onhiancc Company under contract with the South African Chartered Company on tho ground that their supply is inconsistent with neutrality. The Boers have released the thirty British captured at Barbcrton. Jt is believed Do Wet has altered his course and is making for the mountains in the Ladybr.and district. Advices from pro-Boor sources at Brussels state that Russia has urged Kruger to terminate needless bloodshed and accept Britain's conditions. Count Yon Bulow, Secretary of Stale for Foreign Affairs, has Ntatrd that Krnger was warned while in Paris that the Kaiser would not receive him. Nevertheless he persisted in his visit to Germany, which was not accustomed to be thus taken by Rtorm. Germany's attit hide, he said, was designed to promote her interests and facilitate tho maintenance of peace Ho added that the telegram the Emperor despatched to Krugcr on tho occasion of the Jameson raid had proved that in the event of conflict with Britain, Germany must rely solely on her own strength. It 13 somi-otticially stated that < iernwny, Britain and Portugal intend to improve the port of Delagoa Bay, Britain controlling the j railway. J