The sun., 1900-06-25
TO End THE BOER WAR
independence Committee Sounds Paris
on a Programme.
ENGLAND TOLD TO REFLECT
situation In the Far East VIII
Help Them, They Think-Thirty
Prominent Men Named as
Promoters of Plan.

Paris, June 24.-The great Boer indie
| pendence committee has sounded Paris
on the following programmes:
/ since nine months the world has be.
held with anxiety the aggression of the
] greatest empire on earth against hand
/ ful of men, who, pushed on by an un-
quenchable thirst for independence. had
not hesitated to establish in unknown
and savage countries two small repub-
lies, where they might live in freedom
and in peace.
AT the dawn of the twentieth CEN
tury. on the morrow of the peace con-
ference ut The Hague, our disconnected
minds are being given the revolving spec-
tacle of most cruel and inhuman war
undertaken for the simple purpose that
the conquered people should be despoiled
and enslaved.
In so doing England is misled by n
gang of INSCRIPTIONS persons anxious TO
possess a country containing gold mines.
but mankind refuses to believe that n
crime contemplated by few politicians
against the Transvaal and the Orange
Free State could be perpetrated.
1t seems impossible that the great
American republic, mindful of its own
origin should remain to the end ndiffcr.
- :" luESlc eAdctly similar to that
which gave the United States their exist.
ence.
Russia Would Give Aid.
1--WE can hardly believe that Russia
having asserted her generous aspirations
by formulating the international pcnce
conference, would Intentionally refuse
aid in stopping the bloodshed in South
Africa.
1T seems to us inadmissible that Ger.
many, whose emperor in 1896 allowed the
boers to think that they could count on
europe, will not make the least motion
IN behalf of the South African emergen.
cies.
we can IN no way suppose that Great
Britain, country of Gladstone, the cham |
pioh or Just causes, of oppressed national |
ities' right and freedom, will not soon re. |
cover possession of herself and reject |
the administration of men who bring her |
honor and her flag into danger.
we think, in the present circum. |
stances of the hopeless and tragical
struggle, that duty is laid upon French |
men faithful to the glorious IDEAS of gen. |
erosity, justice and liberty, by the means
OF which France is grown up-that dutv
consists in joining a mighty committee
and going hand in hand with those OK.
isting in Russia, Holland, the United
states and even England with all fol
stopping the war and preventing the
destruction of two small nations.
Our object has the best chance of n
happy result because of the present con.
dltions in the far east and on the Afri.
can west coast, and what may arise in
other parts of the world may cause Eng.
liSh statesmen to reflect and to adopt
the advice of greatest moderation piven
by numerous affiliated bodies in politicnl
and social circles"
hlrty senator's, deputies and many OK
are the promoters of the pro
grammc. The most prominent names are
Guerin, editor Of the Anti-Juif. now in
Jam; Rambaud, senator: paulat. scna
ter; Roulanger, senator; Barley. sena.
tor; Boucher, deputy; Krantz, ex-minis
Ter OF marinc; Maimottan. deputy; etc,