Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-09-25
LORD ROBERTS HAS
FINISHED HIS WORK
WiIINOw Proclaim aState Of Peace
in The Transyaal,
SAYS THE WAR HAS ENDED.
VIII Can Boer Commandos Brigands
and Outlaws rom This
Time Forth,

New York. Sept. 25.-A dispatch TO the
Tribune from London says.
The duke of Devonshire has replied 90
the challenge from DalmenN and
Messrs. Balfour and Chamberlain, the
earl OF Kimberley and scores of canvas
sers have been speaking within "a
hours But Lord Ro8eberys letters have
impaired the chief impulse TO the lib
eral canvass. while Lord Roberts has
done the most effective work for the
unlonsts. lie has fully confirmed the
earlier reports Of the occupation OF
Komatip00rt by the British army and
the appearance Of the remnants OF the
Boer Commands in Portuguese terri
tory, after a few rifle shots had been
fred. The guards brigade, which has
held the post Of honor throughout the
campaign led the way into NOmati-
pO0rt. the final objective point Of Lord
Roberts strategy. That brigade has
marched In the course of the year from
DeAar 10 MagersfOntein under Methu-
en-, and 10 BlOemf0nteln, Pretoria and
the Portuguese frontier under Lord
Roberts, and Il now stands guard over
the hack door OF the neutral base
through which the Dutch received their
arms ana supplies.
WILL PROCLAIM PEACE
The war has ended with the destruc-
ton Of guns aud ammunition on the
edge OF the frontier and with the dis
arming Of the refugees by The Portu-
guese officials Every mile OF railway
In sha fufH nnfTh afufHu 10 UguH uUHlr
British control. and every important
town IS garris0ned. Lord Roberts has
finished his work. and can return 10
England after proclaiming a state Of
peace. IN which belliEerents viii be la
bic 20 summary punishment as outlaws
and murderers
The Delagoa Bay railway which has
played an important part IN the Boer
plan Of campaign will now become an
instrument OF peace. 1t Is nominally
owned by a Holland company but has
virtually been the property of the
Transvaal government The Holland di-
rectors. In order 10 prevent the contsca-
ton Of this railway by the British mill
tary authorities. VIII be anxious 90 clear
the line and put II In working order to
Pretoria for supplying the army " oc-
cupation and for the resumption of min
ing operations on the Rand.
The interests Of the Portuguese trad
err. ane Identical With these of fhedlroe-
tcrs
ALL INFLUENCE AGAINST THE
BOERS,
The neutral base. without which the
Beers could not have armed themselves
and kept up q years campaign is con-
verted by the completion OF Lord Rob-
Int -
merCe with the victorious army and
mining camps which are behind H. The
Boer refugees are disarmed and even
imprisoned. and the merchants OF Della
goa Bay are settling down at once for
period of brisk trade with Pretoria
and johannesburg The railway bridge
az komatlpoort has been saved, prob
ably through the good offices Of the
Portuguese. and raiders who interfere
with the prompt resumption Of business
all along the line VIII have no friends On
Delag0a Bay. The entire influence Of
the neutral base viii now be drown on
the British side against a prolOngaton
Of hopeless struggle by train wreck
ers and rowing bands Of guerillas.
CALL 1T POLICE WORK.
Incidents which now an Lord Rob
erts daily bulletins and the meagre dis
patches received by the London press,
are details OF police work rather than
acts of war. Methuen has captured
large drOves Of cattle and sheep. Paget
has broken up the camp Of Erasmus
commando, and other commands are
picking up wagons, ammunition, horses
and live stock, and here and there
squads Of famished and desperate
burghers. These are the closing epi-
s0des Of a campaign which has cost
more In blood and treasure than any war
Of the queens reign, and the unionist
press finds II convenient 20 display them
with large headlines for political effect.
as proofs that hostiities have really
ended and that the electors are called
upon TO decide whether the soldiers Of
the queen have fought their battles and
shed their blood in vain
NEXT STAGE DIFFICULT
Favorable as are the dispatches from
komatipoOrt, there are crOakers IN the
military clubs Who forecast q long period
Of brigandagc and punder in the con-
quered territory. and assert that the
British commanders viii End the last
stage OF Dutch resistance more difficult
10 deal with than guerilla warfare, en-
| numbered with its trains. wagons and
droyes Of cattle and sheep. They as
sumo that the thorough disarming OF
the Beers win require years OF systema-
tic surveillance, since guns rifles and
ammunition have been sown like drag
ons teeth among the kopjos and noun
! tain Businesses. Police work OF this
Kind viii, however cease to be dignlfed
as warfare,and will pass without obser-
walton.
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TRAVELLING MAN DEAD.