The true northerner., 1900-03-15
KRUGER ASKS FOR PEACE
Sends Long Cablegram to Salisbury
Outlining the Terms He Is
Willing to Accept
THE OFFICIALS REGARD IT AS A RUSE.
Time-Dispatch from Roberts Says
Kruger ana steyn Were with
Troops During Fight Of Mach T.
COuIdn't Rally Troops.

London, March 10.-Late Friday
afternoon il was learned that the
peace rumors were founded on the
fact that President Kruger has APP
pealed to Lord Salisbury for cessa-
tion of hostilities, Offering at length,
by cable, the terms which he is will
ing TO accept. These, however, are not
taken seriously, as they include prac-
tically nothing more than what the
Transvaal government offered prior
to the issuing of the British ulti-
matum
Official circles here regard the
propositions as merely a ruse of the
Beers to cain time and do not con-
slider that President Kruger is yet
ready TO consider the sweeping de-
mands which Great Britain will make
as reimbursement for the loss of life
and great expenditure.
1t was understood that President
Kruger's advances had met with an
emphatic rejection at the hands of
Lord Salisbury, who is believed to
have said that no such attempt to re-
tain the independence of the Trans
vaal can be considered for moment
by the British government.
Kruger Uses n Rifle.
Dispatches from the Boer camp at
Glencoe, via Lorenzo Marques, depict
President Kruger as donning a bando-
lier, seizing a rifle and inviting volun-
teers to accompany him, as he wished
to have a shot at the enemy himself.
President Kruger is also quoted as
having declared in his address to the
troops that he 'did not know whether
arbitration or intervention would end
the struggle, but that it would end
quickly. within the next month, he
strongly believed"
Kruger and steyn Were Present.
The war office has received the fol-
lowing dispatch from Lord Roberts:
Poplar Grove Friday Morning.-Presi.
dents Kruger and Steyn were both present
at the fight of March and did all i'm their
power TO rally their troops. The rout,
however, was complete, the men declar-
ing that they could not stand against the
British artillery and such formidable
force of cavalry"
Beers Want to Negotiate.
London, March 10.-The Daily Mail
publishes the following dispatch from
Pretoria, dated Thursday, March s,
via Lourenzo Marques, which had
been censored by the Boer govern
ment:
conversations 1 have had with the
highest state officials show that the Boers
want some arrangement. They say that If
England is waging a war of conquest they
will fight to the finish. Otherwise they be-
lieve that plain statement of the Boer in
tentions will reveal a basis of negotiation.
now that Englands prestige is repaired
President Kruger and President Steyn con-
ferred Monday at Bloemfonten on the in
corporation of the above representations in
a cablegram to Lord Salisbury. The pres
ervation of the independence of the two
republics is a sine qua non
Fierce Fighting.
London, March IA dispatch says
fierce fighting took place in The Orange
Free State between the Boer and Brit
ish armies, and 100 dead Beers were left
on the field, while the list of British
killed and wounded was about the
same.
Total British Losses.
London, March 12.-The British re-
ported casualties up TO this date are
as follows: Killed. 2,41S; wounded,
s,747; died of disease. 1,O29; missing,
3,4s3; total. 1867.
Seeking Peace and Intervention.
London, March 12.-The Daily Mail
has received the following dispatch
from Pretoria, dated Saturday, March
10, and censored by the Boer govern
ment:
president Kruger and President Steyn
have wired to Lord Salisbury peace pro-
posals, on condition that the independence
Of the two republics be respected and the
rebel colonials amncstied. Yesterday the
foreign consuls were called into confer
ence. and were requested to invite the in
tervention of the powers they represented,
in order to prevent further bloodshed."