The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-21
ASKING FOR TERMS.
President Kruger Is Reported 10 Have
Made Peace Proposal.
THE TERMS ARE NOT STATED.
COmmandant Dewet Desires to SuTen.
der His Entire Commando.
RELIEF DETAILS ARE STILL LACKING.
Only News Lord Roberts Has Received Is
Through Press Dispatches.
RELIEF DETAILS ARE STILL LACKING.
A PLOT DISCOVERED TO OPPOSE CON PAUL
Progressive Dutchmcn Said to lie I'm
observation-disclosures Ambulance
Corps suffers Heavily.

London, May I,--(S:1O a. m)--Display-
ed in tho most conspicuous style in the
Daily Express is the dominant war news
OF the morning:
I'VE have the best reason for stating
shat in the last twentyfour hours a tele-
gram has been received at the foreign Of
lice addressed personally TO the prime
minister. from President Kruger, propos
ing terms OF peace.
Tho exact terms acdhe message can not
DO stated. but We believe it Is couched in
an exceedingly humble strain
1t is iueonceiyable, Of course that Lord
Salisbury can have sent any reply except
tho one that stands ready on the llps OF
every Bnton--uncouditlonal surrender.
The bolsterous reiOicings over the news
from Matching huye become RIOTS IN paris
of I,onuou, Aberdeen and Belfast and else-
where in the United Kingdom IN the
Finchley district OF SUBURBAN Londoh i
mob stoned the railway statlonm4sI eF q
house and smashed the wlndo"s OF
draper's shop, setting the building on lro
also, although whether by accident or de-
sign is not yet known. Two clerks were
Injured The house OF a B0er synpathl2sF
AZ Harleaton was attacked by . l1rSe
crowd and the windows were shaUereo'
The police charged the mob ana wsro
greered with a shower OF decayou "ekS'
Numerous arrests were made ana the po-
lice reserves called out.
Riolnr took place In Aberdeen from Z
10 10 o'clock Saturday night around a hali
where stop the-war'' meeting Wa being
addressed BY Mr. Conwright-Schreiner,
nuspand of olive Schreiner. 4 crowd Oh
students and others tried to storm inc
nall and 10 break down the doors Ihe
foot police were unable to cope Win tue
Slsturbors ana sent for the mounted 20
| lice who made some hNdWay WIN thp
crowd, but free tights occurred peI"een
| the supporters o. the mcchhs anu tns
,rnwd ana the royal initrmarN nearby
a,as lfenl husy dressing the wounds OF
com,JaAints, caused by stones, bricks ana
cIi,hs number OF arrests were maui
ana nnally the chlet magistrate orusI "
! thc chief constable TO call out the NM
,nr,, THO Gordon HIghanderS from the
4 castle barracks then cleared the streets
Rov. Lord William Cecil, a son o.
premier. preaching yesterday ~ - s,
chapel. London, before the Aus'Ialio" ',n
Grafton delegates and other nolaplts; ~
,erred 10 these demonstrations OF violence
and said "The popular enthusiasm pre-
yalling throughout the country y uun
,,ernus The line between good ana eYi'
Is soon oyerrun by the unthinhna crown
Tne outhurst rs evil IN so FAR rs ~ 10 VI,
same spirit which animated; thS Noina y
crowds In the coliseum whlle Tue , s,@1
iatnrs pursued each other 10 the dedln
mi IL il good in 80 Tar as II IS profess
against one OF tho greatest eYiis oil 'h'
age--the love Of money
special prayers OF thankegivine were or
fered Yesterday In tho churches OF w
limited Kingdom The lord bishop o
Landau Dr. Mandell Creighton Wh'
preached before the queen Al windsor
alluded TO the relief OF Mnfeklng an
rlerrymen generally found IN the even
their topic for the day
l notaiIs OF The relief are stu wanting
the Brit,sh military authorities being win
ont dispatches Lord Roberts wires ina
, he knows az the relief only through
. nresg agency Lord Lansdowne, however
announces that the war oHlce "APeo'o Va
rect news today
Tbe sltuation IN the field has change
hut little since Friday. Lord Roberts
4 froops nre in fine form and Abundant
I supplied. Indications seem 10 point 70 a
. early movement. His cavalry riding owe
several hundred square niies III henl
circle beyond Kroonstad, have receive
: ths submission Of hundreds OF Ere
, Staters
|; now sppears that the Dewet who Of
u fcred 10 surrender with 1000 men va
q noi Inc well Known General bowet, oI
a r'ommandant pewet lie stipulated TIM
- bis men should he allowed 10 return
= their farms Lord Roberts rephea I'M
a INC surrender must be uncondltiopAi.
% The Botha who was canturod the oth'
dev was Philip Botha. Those SURRENDER
iug are solemnly warned that II they brea
the oath Of neutrality their houses vi
he burned and their farms conl5cate
At Such as DO yield do so only for prote
ton
lie REPORTS flow into Lord Roberts heat
nj quarters OF the encouragement OF u
!, Beers and OF their willingness TO continu
even In the case Of the Tr2nsYaalers,
lt give IN President Steyn is describes
u having lost his head several times recent
v Tho original OF the telegram address,
al TO the 4arghers at Vcntersnurs ursii
OF them 20 hold out was really written
J Petersburg a place which surrender
Cd early In March.
"a. President steyn who was last report
nd as leaving Pretoria sy-er consuiiati'
Of with the Transyaal government has aga
gone to the front.
The Dally Telegraph Is advised that
plot has been discovered at pretoria
depose President Kruger and 70 surfend
ia the Transvaal during tne present MON
Progressive Drtchmen ara members
n the judiciary are asserted 70 nave be
10 parties to The movement
NJ a Capelown correspondent fsasAeF
n that the Irlsh-American ambulance cor
from Chicago suffered heavily during /
fighting at Kroonsuad, aud that unA
pc siale Consul Hay had protested Yalnly
re President Kruger against using tho CO.
er on the hghting tine.
General Butler Is IN front OF l.aing'S n
an hesi 'ating to attack positions OF enormt
4 natural strength. The reports tnat
IN Beers have blown up portions OF the y
er mel arc confirmed
Although everywhere else they are