Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-28
NOT READY FOR PEACE
Peace Terms Not Considered Pos.
sible at This Stage Of the
War.
Hostilities Likely to Continue Until
More Decisive Blow is
Dealt.
Frenchmen Losing Much Of Their
Sympathy For the Beers For
eign Gossip.

ICopyrig,ht, 1900, by Associated Press.l
London, May 2S.-The outlook for
peace, how soon it Will come, and the
steps by which it will be. secured, are.
The air is still full of runlors about
messages from President lSrugersto the
Boer delegates and other formal steps
looking to the cessation of hostilities;
but these, So far, have proved 10 be.
without any Foundations According 10.
the opinion of one of thehighest officials
of the foreign Office. there is IA popular
misconception regarding the mpor-
lance of these imaginary appeals This
authority is inclined to believe hat the
most submissive telegram President.
Kruger could compose would not alter.
the SITUATION in the slightest. Peace"
he declared, can only be accomplis he'd
after the TransNaal has undergone the
same process as the Free Stat. The
cases are, or viii be in d faM days.
analogous. The most iorcible iilustra-
ton of meaning can be gathered by
surprising that President Steyn has
now sued for peace What difference
could such action make to u.s. Neither
Kruger'S words nor Steyn's Words are
any guarantee that their people viii
submit. Kruger might surrender. Pre-,
toria might be in our hands. ytst2in oth-.
er parts OF the Transvaal we might
have a recurrence of such things$as the
: siege of 5NVepener. or widespread upris-
ings which would necessitate the pres
ence of thousands Of troops Thorough.
occupation having now become the obs.
ject of the war. it can not terminate
until disarmament is completely eff.
fected among all the Beers forces.
When the Beers want peace. they must
tell Lord Roberts to take their arms.
This may perhaps occur at the instiga-
ton of President Kruger, but the only.
Importance wezcould now attach To any
of his appeals or utterances is the eX-
tent with which they Would be- obs
served a monsl his own people. My per
sonal opinion is that it will be found
that the extent is small tho this fact
should not delay peace, or. more prop
erly. paciicatiou. Lord Roberts should
be a BILE to subdue the Transvaall almost
as easily as he did the Free State. If,
as I hear is likely, bodies of Beers will
4 take to the hills, lot of them Will be
kept there until they are tired. With
the bulk of the population disarrned,
these guerrilla bands are not likely to
be a serious factor / fail to see how
the matter would be altered if aaforeign
power, say5the United States, consented
to transmit the unconditional surrender
of our foes. can not see thai 1t would
be worth the paperit was written on.
tho the action we would take is too
Hypothetical for me To forecast it
Others who have given the matter
study have echoed these IDEAS. While a
we'll known member Of the diplomatic
corps told the representative of the AS
y ISOLATED Press that heSthousht II most
improbable that any nation Would
ira nsmit even unconditional offers
from the Beers or that such a method
of attempting to stop the War would
do the Beers any good, except as salv-
ing their pride
The queens birthday was made the
excuse for prolonging the Mafeking
cele brations. Maj Gen. Baden-l' Powell
naturally enough is the hero of the
hour. While Col. Ma hon is the reiieyer
of the town. he is almos. as much a
nonentity as when the name of the
comma Eder of the relieving column was
undiselosed. Col. Mahon is said to b.
Gen. Lord ISitchener's favorite officer;
and the sirdar5is reported to have tele-
graphed to him to come from south OF
khartoum to South Africa. To obey
this mandate, it is added, Col. Mahon
drove to death 40 fewer than five cam
i els while crossing the desert. He Is d
member Of an old Galway family and .
relative of Sir Edward Henry Carstln
the new solicitor general. A noticeable
feature Of the reioicings is the preva
4 lence everywhere of the stars ans
stripes, which Were never before dis,
played 10 such an extent. and which i.
almost always next to or intertNinet
with the union jack. Commenting o.
this fact the St. James Gazette says,
This is as it should be =