Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-29
SALISBURY WEAkENS
Asks the Queen TO Re Relieved from the
Premiership of England.
VICTORIA PLEADS WITH HIM TO STAY
Will Remain for a While, bat Will Retire at
First Opportunity,
WOULD WASH HANDS OF WAR BUSINESS
DLD WASH HANDS OF WAR BUSINESS
in Spirit He Says the Present Crisis
Demands a Younger Man.
CiBlNET LIKELY TO GET A SINKING UP
Future Organization of that Body De-
lends on the Conduct of Mil
itnry Operations In
south Africa.

(Cupyright, 1899, by Press Publishing Coz
LONDON. Dec. 2S.-(New York World Ca
blcgram-Special Telegram.)-The rumor OF
the impending retirement of the marquis OF
Salisbury from the prime ministership of
England, Cabled recently, is causing a COM
motion here. | hear that Lord Salisbury
urgently pressed his resignation on the
queen, pleading that shaken health and pri-
waite sorrows have caused him to lose heart
and that the crisis demands "A younger, more
active counselor.
The queen m Arthur Balfour 10
Windsor the day after Lord Salisbury's de-
parture and commanded him to use his in
tluCnce TO induce the marquis, his uncle,
to retain the premiership.
1t is understood that Lord Salisbury has
assentcd to the queens wishes to remain at
the head of the government for the present.
but that he will retire at the first oppor-
tunity.
The circumstance that the Hon. Schom-
berll X. Mcdonnell, Lord Salisbury's prin-
cipal political secretary, has volunteered for
service and will leave Immediately for the
front, indicates to those who know how close
he has been to his chief, that the latter can
not now mean TO carry the burden of gov
eminent much longer.
The future cabinet arrangements depend
on the progress of the war. If Lords Rob
erts and Kitchener fail to put a new face
on the campaign and further reverses are
suffered a government of national defense
will be formed, with-according to the best
opinion-the duke of Devonshire as premier,
Lord Rosebery as foreign secretary, MIR.
Asquith as colonial secretary and Sir Henry
Fowler as war secretary, the last three being
imperialist liberals pledged to prosecute the
war to an end.
Patrol for Contrnbnnd of War.
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LONDON, Dec. 2S.-(New York World
Cablegram-Special Telegram.)-I saw a
high official of the admiralty today in ref
erence to the report that the commander-in-
chief of the British North Atlantic squadron
hud received Instructions 10 patrol the
American coast and search ships for contra
band for the Beers. He said:
Our instructions to officers are cOnfiden-
tial. | can make no statement on the sub
ject. But may point out that when we
wish to stop contraband reaching the Beers
one Of the most effective and easiest of
methods is through a patrol. Delagoa bay
is not on the American coast"
The Washington authorities are not treat
ing the recent seizures as a question OF
urgency, as Salisbury has not yet received
any communication on the subject through
Ambassador Choate. This Information is
given at the foreign Office. The matter is
exciting little attention here, though New
York adViCes show it is causing a keen CON
troversy.
Many Beers Killed.
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C~HIEVELEY CAMP, Dec. 23.-5:2O p. m.
-(New York World Cablegram-SpeciaI
TelcgramD-A hundred Kafirs came in from
the BOer camp today. They say the Bocr
losses by lyddite shells were terrific on the
18th. Some trenches were filled with dea1
and covered up there in place of burial. The
Kaffirs declare many Beer women are about
the camp looking for their dead and
wounded relatives, There has been heavy
Smelling at Ladysmith, but no damage. Re
ports from there say all are well.
Mag Rcducc British Rntions.
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BRUSSELS, Dec. 28.-(New York World
Cablegram-Special Telegram.)- Petit
Bleu prints Pretoria adyices saying that the
Transvaal Will reduce the rations of the
British prisoners if tho British cut off food
importation into the Transvaal.
The same newspaper declares that the
BOer. government is about to submit to the
great powers documents captured at Glen
coo. showing that the British had a plan tc
invade the Transyaal made in 1896 by Eng
endorsement on a memorandum.