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 .. . EMPEROR WILLIAMS MESSAGE TO KRUGER. 219 Finally, the sun of peace broke through the clouds when the Lon-don Times, in a dispatch from Berlin, referring to the supposed pur-pose of Germany to dispatch troops to South Africa, said: It is now explained that Germany only desired to protect Germanresidents and its consulate at Pretoria, and that no arrangement hadbeen previously made with Portugal, and, after heari
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 .. . EMPEROR WILLIAMS MESSAGE TO KRUGER. 219 Finally, the sun of peace broke through the clouds when the Lon-don Times, in a dispatch from Berlin, referring to the supposed pur-pose of Germany to dispatch troops to South Africa, said: It is now explained that Germany only desired to protect Germanresidents and its consulate at Pretoria, and that no arrangement hadbeen previously made with Portugal, and, after hearing that Dr. Jame-son had started, Germany only had time to telegraph an explanationof its intended action to Lisbon. The news of Dr. Jamesons defeatarrived before Portugal had time to reply. It is a pity that this ex-planation was not published earlier. On the Continent it was openly charged that not only was CecilRhodes fully aware of the movements of Dr. Jameson, but that theBritish Government was also aware of what was going on. Had theraid been successful, according to popular belief in Europe at thetime, Great Britain would have stepped in and occupied the Transvaal,ostensib
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