The Hawaiian gazette., 1900-04-03
PEACE MAY
Be REACHED
Boer Agents Sail for
Europe.
MR.. KRUGER NEGOTIATING
Roberts Delays His General Move
ment Though There is Some
Skirmishing

Europe.
LONDON. March 21-A dispatch TO
the Morning Post from Cape Town
says: The real objective point of the
Boer peace delegation, which recently
sailed from Lourenzo Marquee for Eu
rope, Is Russia. The delegates, Messrs.
Wolmerans, Fischer and Vessels, the
latter being the President of the Free
State Raad, took with them all the Sc
cret discriminating documents from
Pretoria, thus making 1t difficult to in
criminate Steyn and the members of
the Afrikander Bund in Cape Colony.
SECRET MESSAGES FROM Kruger.
LONDON, March %, 4:20 a. m.-Sev-
eral kilograms have passed between
President Kruger and the British Gov
ernment, in addition to the Salisbury
Kruger correspondence already pub
lished. The Foreign Office received a
dispatch from Pretoria yesterday. The
contents of these communications can
not yet be obtained.
So far as the military situation is
concerned, there is practically no
change. Lord Roberts is quietly max
Ing preparations for the next move. AS
necessary to a beginning, Generals
Gatacre and Brabant are swiftly NOV
districts of the Free State, dispensing
OF accepting the surrender of any re-
naming Beers, thus insuring the safe
ty OF Lord Roberts communications
before starting toward Pretoria.
LONDON, March 22.-The Cape Town
correspondent of the Daily Mail, tele
graphing Tuesday, March Goth, says
Il have just returned from Bloemfon-
tein, where | learned that no further
movement is probable for three weeks.
as negotiations are proceeding. / fail
ed to ascertain the nature of the nego-
tiations or whether Sir Alfred Miners
departure from Cape Town is connected
with them, but should not be surpris-
ed II the war collapses quickly"
A dispatch to the Standard from
Bloemtontein, dated Tuesday, says:
Four thousand Transvaalers from
Colesberg trekked on Saturday and
Sunday to the northeast, going by way
of the Basutoland border. They will
probably be caught at one of the
passes.
A striking feature of the advance on
Bloemfontein was the abandonment of
our communications with Poplar
Grove. Lord Roberts, confident in the
ability OF his transport to meet all i'm
mediate needs of the army, deliberately
left the enemy at Abraham's kraal to
do what they liked. The result fully
justified him. The enemy to the south
were paralyzed by the boldness and ra-
pidity of the stroke, and Generals
Clements and Gatacre We're enabled to
cross the Orange river almost without
opposition.
"A Daily Chronicle correspondent at
Bloemfontein, telegraphing Tuesday,
March Goth, says: THE civil govern
ment has been reorganized. j. A. Col
Inns, Under Secretary Of the Interior in
Steyn's executive, has been appointed
Landrost. Steyn is regarded as guilty
of faulty. but not Influenced by nepo-
tism. He was always Krueger's tool,
1t has been rumored that he has reaped
financial benefits from this connection,
but the report is not substantiated. Mr..
Fischer played the part of Steyn's
Mephistopheles.
LONDON, March 22.-The CORES
pondent of the Times at Lourenzo
Marques. telegraphing Tuesday, says:
1t is reported from Pretoria that a
scheme has been arranged for the
algamaItion of the Transvaal and
the Free State. Krueger will become
President OF the Federated States and
Steyn Commandant General of the
Boer army. The flag will be the same
as that of the Transvaal, with an ad
ditional orange color.
Although this story is not confirmed
1t is not improbable. 1t is a notoriou:
fact that General Joubert has lost the
confidence of the burghers simply be-
\, oh,
MS eyes TO the inevitable result of the
war. With all the burghers in the field
1t might not be difficult to secure a
formal Endorsement of this rumored
scheme.
NEW YORK, March PA Sun
cable from Pretoria, March goth, ! p.
m., via Lorenzo Marquee says A dis
patch from Kroonstadt, ORANGE Free
State dated March 18th, says; The Pre-
toria federal commands are here.
They are in grand spirits. They are'
ready for the enemy, end are even de-
family awaiting the British advance,
Presidents Kruger and Steyn address
ed vast camp meeting to-day TheI
Transvaal President made an impas-
stoned appeal to the burghers to main
tain gallant fight for freedom. Hel
told them 1t was certain that the ulti- |
mate result of the war would be that
the Boer republics would retain their
despite the temporary
British occupation OF Bloemfontein.
President Steyn followed President !
Kruger in a strong speech, He told
the burghers that the Free State was
far from conquered because its capital
had been occupied by the British, He
informed the burgthers that England
had definitely refused TO allow the re-
publies to remain independent states,
Therefore, all the republics had to do
now was to fight to the last. President
steyn said that In the six months the
war had been going on the Beers had
LOST less than 100 men killed, and that
.he fighting was really commencing