The German Government does not abandon its resolve to interfere
in the Transvaal. It has a commercial treaty with that State and commercial interests to defend. Therefore, said Baron von Marschall, on behalf of the Imperial Government, in a debate of Thursday in the Reichstag, " We are brought into antagonism with those whose endeavours are directed towards making a thorough job' in South Africa, who desire to do away with the autonomous States and the possessions of other European Powers there, and to form out of South Africa one State under a Constitution of the nature of which we have as yet not been informed. The triumph of these endeavours would denote a serious injury to our interests." In other words, there is to be no federated "Dominion of South Africa." There is a possibility of a terrible war underlying those sentences.
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