Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-10-07
STILL NO CHANGE.
Situation in TransvaaI Is
Yet Unchanged.
Beers In the Field Are Already
Becoming Dissatisfied.
Pretoria Hopes President Mckinley Will Come
10 It's Relief With Mediation.

London, oct. G.-All the reliable in
telilScnce from South Africa points to
CONTINUANCE Of the existing situation
LOT some time, as both sides are APP
parehtly difiident about commencing an
attack, although from the dispatches
received mere ii Seems as if every
movement Of patrol and every cloud
OF dust raised by a herd of cattle We're
turned into q general andvance by
both armies. The delay is all to the
good, inasmuch as it gives time for
further negotiations and today's indi-
cations apparently show a willingness
IN the part of the British government
to continue to utilize diplomacy
A wcll-defincd conviction is preva-
lent that the foreign office is trying to
discover 2 way out Of the impasse,
which has been created by admitted
mistakes and INSTALLATIONS; and it is
evident that peace advocates and peace
counscls are gaining ground, although
MIR. Chamberlain's refusal to sieze the
chance given him by the petition of 50
members Of the Cape House of Assem-
bly, to point out in his reply, that the
Beers still have an opportunity Of ac-
cepting Great Britains previous offer,
50 long as her new proposals remain
unformulated, seems to show a per-
sonal determination on the part of the
secretary of state for the colonies not
to yield an iOta in the interest of
peace.
While the distaste for war evidently
increases in Great Britain, dispatches
from the scene Of possible hostilities
grow more and more lurid. Advices
from Pretoria describe the Transvaal
organs as crying for impossible terms
and also President Kruger as referring
to the prospective struggle as a means
Of setting the republic totally free of
England
1t is also said, according to advices
from the same point, that the Boer
forces ct Eolksrust will advance today
to the Natal border and according to
Gen. Symons. although Commander
General Joubert is personally adverse
70 hostilties his patient tactics will
not last as the Beers will soon either
demand to be disbanded or to receive
orders to invade Natal
Dispatches from Cape Town of doubt
full authenticity. allege that the Boer
organization in the field is already
breaking down and that friction is de-
veloring between the artillery who are
regulars and the burghers commanders.
The refugees in Capt Town are hav-
ing bad time. the women and children
being in pitable plight. The govern
ment's offer to send a transport for
some Of the distressed has been accept
ed
In connection with the rumors that
Queen Victoria is liable to intervene to
prevent war curious story is publish
go. this morning, by the Vienna Es-
trablatt, which alleges that Her Ma
jesty intends to abdicate in the event of
an outbreak of hostilities. declaring
that ii has this information from an
excellent source" The statement I'M
favorahly affected the Vienna Beers
The British foreign Office when shown
the Vienna story as to the intention of
the Queen to abdicate should war
break out. declared it "supremely
ridiculous" and utterly baseless."
The announcement from Pretoria
that the British diplomatic agent, Mr..
Conyngham Greene. is ill., is taken in
some quarters to Indicate the possibil-
ity of his recall and of further steps in
the direction Of a peaceful adjustment.
a host Of officers including Prince
ana a large number of nurses sailed for
the Cape, today.
1t now appears that Lieut. Winston
Spencer Churchill. son of the late Lord
Randolph Churchill. who will accom-
pany Gen. Sir Redvers Butler will go.
not on behalf of the Times. but as the
war correspondent of the London Morn
ing Post and the New York World. Sir
Henry Campbell Bennerman. speaking
at Maidstone. today. said that neither
side had shut the door upon further
negotia tons. Great Britain" he con-
tiued. has not made her demands as a
suZerain power, but in virture of inter
national law and as the power respon-
sibie for the being of South Africa.
If the Boer government have refused
he reasonable requests of the dispatch
IF the secretary of state for the colo
MES on Sept. through fear and sus-
Dicion regarding a possible attack upon
heir independence. the speeches of the
Duke Of Devonshre 0ord president of
he council of minsters) and Sir Mat
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