War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers .. . frican ter-ritory adjoining the Transvaal, with the view of re-enforcing the Boers,a dispatch from Berlin said it was rumored there that Portugal hadpositively refused to consent to any such movement upon the part ofGermany. The idea that a combination of the powers of Europe had beenformed against Great Britain gained ground, and the Paris newspapersannounced that the movement was really on foot to establish
War in South Africa and the Dark continent from savagery to civilization : The strange story of a weird world from the earliest ages to the present, including the war with the Boers .. . frican ter-ritory adjoining the Transvaal, with the view of re-enforcing the Boers,a dispatch from Berlin said it was rumored there that Portugal hadpositively refused to consent to any such movement upon the part ofGermany. The idea that a combination of the powers of Europe had beenformed against Great Britain gained ground, and the Paris newspapersannounced that the movement was really on foot to establish an anti-British alliance. Oil was poured upon these troubled waters by a dispatch from theGovernor of Cape Colony, saying: You may be satisfied that the crisis is over and that all danger offurther hostilities is ended. The clouds of war were still further cleared away when it was an-nounced in Berlin that the German Council of Ministers did not fullyapprove of Emperor Williams dispatch to President Kruger, but thatthe Emperor insisted upon having his own way and handed the messagehimself to the telegraph bureau, ordering that a copy of it be given tothe semi-official
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