The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-03-10
END OF TRnNSVAAL WAR
SAID TO Be IN SIGHT
Orders for the EmbarkatiOn Of British TrOODS FOr
South Africa Are Recalled.
President Kruger Asks For Cessation of HOSieS to Dis
cuSS Terms of Peace.

London, March 10. 4:15 a. m.-Sir
Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor OF
the exchequer. when explaining 10 the
bankers the terms of the new loan,
gave them an intimation that the gov
erDment considered the end Of the war
near.
Since the estimates were prepared.
he said, events have taken place that
have changed the situation, and prob
ably not all the money Will be re
quired."
Whatever the government may know
or intend, unofficial opinion seems ev-
erywhere TO think that the Boer power
is collapsing. The Eighth division has
been under orders to embark for sew
eral weeks, but these orders, as far
as the artillery contingent is concerned,
have been recalled, Lord Roberts hay
ing reported that 10 more artillery
from home is necessary
This is the first pause in reinforce
ments since the war began. Sir Red
vers Butler. second in command in the
field. and Lord WCIseley are under
stood 70 also consider that no more
artillery is needed. Lord Roberts has
altogether 452 guns, including siege
pieces.
Butler VIII Be G1iet.
1t is quite clear that General Butler
will not try anything large in the fu-
tUre. as he is TO lose Sir Charles War
rem and the latter's 10000 men, who
81 Il Dbl
erts. It is the expectation OF the war
office that Lord Roberts. nOtWithstand-
ing the necessity Of garrisOning his
depots, will be able to operate a con-
sstantly increasing force until by the
time the TranSVaal frontier is reached
he win have 10000 troops.
His kilograms dealing with nOn-es-
sentials are taken TO mean that he Is
up to some mischief, as his apparent
inactivity usually spells uncommon ac-
tivity.
Mafeking, as a beleaguered town, at
tracts much sentiment and sympathy.
Nothing has been heard from there
since Feb. 19. There is a rumOr this
morning that Colonel Baden Powell has
been relieved, but this cannot be traced
70 any substantial basis
Kruger Shed Bitter Tears.
All the special dispatches from Pop
lar Grove confirm the panic OF the
Beers. The Morning Posts correspond
ent says:
President Kruger shed tears at his
Intellectual attempts to rally the Beers.
who were completely paralyzed by
Roberts mastery tactics. They were
too demoralized TO heed his expOstula-
tons, and declared that the British
cannon were everywhere"
The Daily News correspondent says
THE Beers were seized with a panic.
thus spelling the whole plan. which
had been beautifully calculated to de-
stroy them entirely. AS the Sixth di-
vision emerged from a hidden position
and appeared on the crest with the
mounted infantry in shirmishing Order
the Beers thought the whole earth Gov
cred with soldiers in their front and
rear and on their TANKS. They did not
wait to verify their suppOsitiOn. but
fled. seized apparently with a dread
that they might share the fate Of
Cronje"
The Berlin correspondent Of the
Daily Mail says: Il learn that there is
dissensiOn between President Kruger
and General JOubert- and that the lat
ter has resigned. Probobly President
l.
General Schalkberger and other prom
inent commandments are also likely to
resign for similar reasons and because
President Kruger ignores their advices
to make peace OvertUres after the first
BOer victory"
Beers Want Understanding.
The Daily Mail publishes the fol-
lowing dispatch from Pretoria. dated
Thursday. March S. via Lourenzo Mar
cues, which has been censored by the
Boer government:
Conversations 7 have had with the
highest state officials show That the
Beers want some Arrangement. They
say if England is vagino q vvar ~
conquest they viii fight TO the finish.
Otherwise, they believe that a plain
statement Of the BOer intentions viii
reveal a basis of negotiations. now that
Engldnds prestige is repaired.
president Kruger and President
Steyn conferred Monday at Bloemfon-
TEN on the Incorporation of the above
representa- tons in a cablegram to Lord
Salisbury. The preservation of the in
dependence Of the two republics is a
sine qua non
Mr. Hollawell. in a further telegram
to the Daily Mail. describing his ex-
perlences in a Pretoria Jail says there
are about Zoe colonials and those are
scandalOusly treated He made an at
tempt to see the American consul. but
in vain
A correspondent Of the Daily Mail at
Lourenzo Marques telegraphing Thurs
day Gays: I am reliably informed that
high officials openly avow that the
British flag shall never fly at johann
nesburg. The place will be RACED to the
ground and the mines put in readiness