Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-05-21

Cabled a Personal Proposal TO
Lord Salisbury.
MAY BE III A BUBBLE STRAIN.
This Relieved to Re the Tone of the
Concentration Pot to Dspose Rru-
ger and Surrender Reported to Have
Been Discovered.

Lospos. Nav 2l.-Displayed in the
most conspicuous style in The Daily
Express is the dominant war news Of
the morning.
CIV, have tho best reason for stating
that i'll the last "a hours telegram has
been received at the foreign office, adj
dressed personally to the prime minis
ter, from President Kruger. proposing
terms OF peace
"Jhe exact terms of the message can
not be stated but we believe it is
couched in an exceedingly humble
strain. 1t is uncomfortable, OF course,
that Lord Salisbury can have sent any
reply except the one that stands ready
on the lips of every Briton-uncondi-
tional surrender. F"
The boisterous rejoicings over the
news from Mafeking have become riots
in parts of London, Aberdeen and Bel
fast and elsewhere III the United King
dom.
Special papers of thanksgiving were
read yesterday in the churches of the
United Kingdom. The lord bishop of
London, DR. Mandell Creighton, who
preached before the queen at Windsor.
alluded to the relief of Mafeking, and
clergymen generally found in the event
their topic for the day.
Lord Roberts troops are in fine form
and abundantly supplied Indications
seem to point to an early movement.
His cavalry, rididg over several hun.
dred square miles in a semi-circle be-
yond Kroonstad. have received the sub
mission of hundreds of Free Staters
1t now appears that the DeWet who
offered to surrender with l. 200 men was
not the well-known General DeWet, but
Commandant DeWet. He stipulated
that his men should be allowed to re
turn t. their farms Lord Roberts re.
piled that the surrender must be uncon-
ditional.
The Botha who was captured the
other day was Philip Botha.
Reports flow into Lord Roberts, at
headquarters, of the Encouragement of
the Beers and Of their willingness, even
III the case of the Transvaalers, to give
up. President Steyn is described as
having lost his head several times re-
Gently.
The Daily Telegraph is advised that a
plot has been discovered at Pretoria to
depose President Kruger and to surren-
der the Transyaal during the present
iACie1= L loSltSo1Nt ChituLlcu anu
members of the judiciary are asserted
to have been parties to the movement
A Cape Town correspondent reasserts
that the Irish American ambulance
corps from Chicago suffered heavily
during the fighting at Kroonstad, ana
that United States Consul Hay had
protested vainly to President Kruger
against using the corps on the fighting
line.
General Butler is in front at Laing's
mex, hesitating to attack positions of
enormous natural strength. The reports
that Beers have blown up portions of
the tunnel are confirmed. Although
everywhere else they are reported as re-
firing outfronted, they have effected
their retreat without losing their con
voys, or guns or prisoners to any ex.
tent
General Colville's base is Winburg
General Rumble is advancing on Ficks-
burg, trying to catch up with the re-
treating Beers. Vrado, where the Free
State capital has been removed, is vii
lage of 200 inhabitants i'll the extreme
northeastern part of the country, on the
road from Hebron to Botha's pass aud
the Drakensburg.