El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-15
Salisbury's Attitude Re-
veals The Iron
Hand
THE POWERFUL EMPIRE
Beating TO Their Knees,
Intrepid Men, Devoted
Women, Brave
Boys

LONDON, March I5.-The cabinet
thinks that the welcome accorded tC
. Lord Roberts at Bloemfontein con firm!
the rumors that the Orange Free State
is sick of fighting. Il is now expected
that the Free State troops will leave
the Transvsal burghers to fight the
war alone. This, it is believed, &C
counts for Gen. Buffers new advance
towards Vanreenan's Pass, as it il
q. though that be will now have no diff
Gully in entering the Free State.
A few critics think that Lord Sails
bury's reply to the Beers peace over
tares was bad diplomacy as it commits
England, while danger of interven tion
<still exists. Several members of the
cabinet wanted Salisbury to say that
he would refuse to recognize the re-
publics as sovereign international
states, leaving the question of internal
independence in allegiance. These sd-
visers were overruled, Salisbury say
ing it was annexation or nothing.
The Manchester Guardian in pow
erful editorial today says that the pre-
mIer's reply means that the country
has entered on sheer war Of conquest
in which the greatest empire in the
~world is heating to its knees popola-
tion which could easily be packed into
small provincial town.
LAS their able men fall" says the
paper, their places are taken by other
men and boys and even women. These
things are inevitable in wars of con-
quest. The conqueror makes a solitude
and calls it peace"
TEXT OF MIR. HAYS S NOTE.
LONDON, March 15.-In the house of
cemmons this afternoon Ohm Redmond
the nationalist leader, asked Mr..
S3alfour, the government leader,
whether the United States had offered
its good Offices to bring about peace in
South Africa.
Mr.. Bsifour replie ii at the Ameri
can charge sd affair es on March IL
co mmunicated to Lord Salisbury the
following telegram which he received
from United States Secretary of State
Hay:
"By way of'frieudly good offices you
will inform the British foreign minis
ter that 1 today received a telegram
from the; United States consul at Pre-
taria, reporting that the South African
republics requested the president of
the United States to intervene with a
view of cessation OF hostilities and
that similar request had been made
of represent tatives of other European
powers. In communicating this re-
quest | am asked to express the hope |
t hat q way OF bringing about peace |
may besfound and I will be glad to aid |
in snv friendly manner to bring about
so aappy a result"
Continuing, Mr.. Balfour' said that
Lord Salisbury requested Mr.. White to
convey the sincere acknowledgements
of her majesty's government to the
United States for the friendly tone of
the communication and to say that her
majesty's government did notpropose to
accept Intervention from any power in
South African affairs. The reading of
the governments answer to the Ame-
rican note was greeted with loud
cheers.
BACK TO NATAL.
LONDON, March 15.-A dispatch
RON Durham, under date OF yesterday,
,ats that iu view of the developments
n the Orange Free State, the inten-
ion of Withdrawing @ sneral Warren
Ind large part of the troops from
Natal has been abandoned. Instead
he forces which had already been
brought down to the coast are being c
ent back and an attempt will be made {
o storm the passes Of Dcakenbergs in t
o the Orange Free State. e
CANADIAN TROOPS.
halifax, n. 8, March 15.-The !
1ehlstar regiment British infantry re-
eived orders to leave this garrison for
,ugla md on March %. They embark
q the steamer Vancouver. Their g