The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-06
VICTORIA ABD|CATE?
Foreign Office Says the
Vienna Report Is
Nonsense.
[By Gable to The Associated Preaa.l

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| LONDON. Oct. 6, 1Sss.-All the reliable
| intelligence from South Africa points to
a continuance of the existence situation
| for some time, as both sides are appar-
| emily diffident about commencing an at
tack, although, from the dispatches re-
ceived here, it seems as If every move
| ment of a patrol and every cloud Of dust
raised by herd of cattle were turned in
to general advance by both admies.
The delay is all to the good. inasmuch as
| 1t gives time for further negotiations and
| todays indications apparently show a
Willingness on the part of the British
macy.
| A well defined conviction is prevalent
| that the Foreign Office is trying to dis
cover way out OF the impasse which
has been created by admitted mistakes
and miscalculations; and it is evident that
peace advocates and peace counSelS are
gaining ground, although Mr.. Chamber
lain's refusal to seize the chance given
him by the petition of ffty-eight mem~
bers of the Cape House of Assembly to
point out, in his reply, that the Beers still
have an opportunity of accepting Great
Britain's previous offer. so long as her
new proposals remain unformulated,
seems to show personal determination
on the part of the Secretary Of State for
the Colonies not to yield an i0ta in the
interest of peace.
While the distaste for war evidently in
creases in Great Britain, dispatches from
the scene of possible hostilities grow more
and more lurid. Advices from Pretoria
describe the Tranvaal organs as crying
for impossible terms and President Kruger
as referring to the prospective struggle
as a means OF setting the Republic total
ly free of England
1t is also said, according OF advices from
the same point, that the Boer foces at
volksrust will advance today to the
Natal border. and, according to General
SVYnnnS 1lfbnHgh Com General
Joubert IS personally averse to hostilities,
his patient tactics viii not last, as the
Beers will soon either demand to be dis
banded rto receive oders to invade
Natal.
Dispatches from Cape Town of doubt
full authenticity, alelge that the Boer or
ganization in. the field is already break
ing down and that friction is developing
between the Artillery. who are regulars,
and the Burgher Commanders.
The refugees in Cape Town are having
ing in a pitlable plight. The governments
offer to send transport for some of
the distressed has been accepted.
In connection with the rulnors that
Queen Victoria is liable to intervene to
prevent war, curious story is published
this morning by the Vienna Estrablatt.
which alleges that Her Majesty intends
Ito abdicate in the event of an outbreak
of hostilities, declaring that it has this
information from an excellent source"
The statement unfavorably affected the
The announcement from Pretoria that
the British Diplomatic Agent, Mr. Con-
yngham Greene, is i'll, is taken In some
quarters to indicate the possibility of his
of a peaceful adjustment.
A host OF Officers including Prince
Christian Victor of Schleswig- -Holstein,
and a large number of nurses sailed for
the Cape today.
1t now appears that Lieutenant Winston
Spence Churchill. SON of the late Lord
General Sir Redvers Butler will go not
on behalf of the Times but as the war
correspondent Of the Londan Morning
POST and the New York World
ing at Maidstone today, at luncheon
specially arranged to give the leader of
the Opposition in the House of Commons
Of offcial liberalism regarding the
Transvaal crisis, said that neither side
had shut the door upon further negotia-
tions.
made her demands as a suzerain Power.
but in virtue of International law and
as the Power responsible for the well be-
erninent have refused the reasonable re-
quests of the despatch of the Secretary
Of State for the Colonies on Sep-
tember through fear and suspicion
independence. the speeches Of the Duke
of Devonshire, uord President of the
Coincil of Ministers1. and Sir Matthew
White Ridley Secretary Of State for the
Home Department.. constitute assurances
which ought to extinguish suspicion and
fear. These speeches are quite as au-
thoritatfve as any dispatches and bind
the honor of the Government and the
country. They ought to open the way TO
an agreement"
The British Foreign ONCE, when shown
the Vienna story as to the intention Of
the Queen to abdicate should war break
out. declared It "supremely ridiculous
a nd *.l1fterlx. ha seIhss q, -l-.-Es