The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-05-24
IS SUING FOR PEACE.
President Kruger Said to Have Pro-
posed Terms.
speotal Q tne HEaALn.

London, May 2t.-The relief OF
Matching was officially confirmed to-
day. 1t occurred on May II, There
is now great eagerness Tor details as
to how it was effected.
Peace propositions are alleged to
have been made by President Kruger
together with the proposed surrend
er Of Commandant Defect and a
thousand Free Staters.
The queen has approved Of the pro
motion Of Baden-Powell to the rank
of Major General.
Baden-Poyven Heard From.
London, May Powell re-
ports from Matching the details of
the capture Of Eloff and party. Ten
are dead, 10 wounded and 1OS Boer
prisoners. The English losses were
6 killed and II wounded.
London, May 21,-Displayed in the
most conspicuous style in the Daily
Express is the dominant war news of
! the morning: "We have the best rea-
son for stating that in the last "a
hours a telegram has been received at
the foreign office, addressed person
ally to the prime minister, from Pres
ident Kruger, proposing terms of
peace. The exact terms of the mes
sage cannot be stated, but we believe
it is couched in an exceedingly hum
BILE strain"
1t is inconceivable of course that
Lord Salisbury can have sem any re-
ply except the one that stands ready
on the lip of every Briton-uncondi-
! tional surrender.
Seeks Cessation of HOstiIitieE.
The New York Herald says:
Lorenzo Marques, May l9.-The Trans
Vaal government decided to-day to send q
message to Lord Roberts requesting a
cessation Of hostilities, demanding a guar
antee that the lives of all colonials fighting
with the Beers shah be spared, and stating
that unless these terms are granted the
mines will be blown up and Johannesburg
destroyed.
The government has been for some time
considering the destruction Of the mines.
President Kruger and the executive coun-
ell were against the proposition, but strong
popular pressure was brought to bear in
favor of It.
President Kruger has a a dream that
the war would be ended within three weeks,
which he firmly believes.
There Is much uncertainty in Pretoria,
where Kruger is the only strong hand The
Boer president told me that he would fight
until the last cartridge.
Notwithstanding the diseeuraging stu
alton, President Steyn maintains a CHEEKY
and bold demeanor.
still Rejoicing.
The boisterous rejoicings over the
news from Mafeking have become
riots in parts Of London, Aberdeen
and Belfast and elsewhere in the
United Kingdom. In the Finchley
district of suburban London a mob
stoned the railway station masters
house and smashed the windows of a
Idraper's shop, setting the building on
FIRE also, although whether by acct.
dent or design it is not yet known,
Two clerks were injured. The house
of a Boer sympathizer at Harleston
was attacked by a large crowd and
the windows were shattered. The po-
lice charged the mob and were greet
ed with a shower of decayed eggs.
Numerous arrests were made and the
police reserves were called out.
Special prayers of Thanksgiving
were offered Sunday in the churches
of the United Kingdom. The lord
bishop of London, DR.. Mandell Creigh,
ton, who preached before the queen
at Windsor, alluded to the relief oil
Mafeking, and clergymen generally
found in the event their topic for the
day.
Details sim Lacking.
Details of the relief are still want,
ing, the British military authorities
being without dispatches. Lord Rob.
erts wires that he knows of the re
lief only through a press agency
Lord LaRsdowne, however, announces
that the war Office expects direct news
to-day.
Plot to DeDOse Kruger.
The Daily Telegraph is advised that
a plot has been discovered at Pre-
toria to depose President Kruger ant
to surrender the Transvaal during the
present month. Progressive Dutch
men and members of the judiciary
are asserted to have been parties t.
the movement.
Suffered Heavily.
/ A Cape Town correspondent reas
serts that the Irish-American ambu
lance corps from Chicago suffered
heavily during the fighting at Kroon
stad, and that United States Consu
!, Hay had protested vainly to Presiden
Kruger against using the corps on tn
fighting line.
willing to Surrender.
London, May FLA special dispatcl
from Kroonstad says that Gen. Dewe
has sent word that he is prepared t
surrender condi ionally with his en-
tire commando.
Iater-It now appears that tn
Dewet who offered to surrender witt
1000 men was not the well-knowl
Gen. Dewet, but Commandant Dewet
: He stipulated that his men shoul,
: be allowed to return to their farms
/ Lord Roberts replied that the SUI
render must be unconditional
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