Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-03-19
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British Public Inclined to Feel
Sore Because Of Hays
q Suggestion
That This Country Was Will
ing to Assist in Peace
Negotiati ions.
Satisfaction Over alisbury's Per-
fectly Court eously y Brusque
Refusal.


|s# Refusal.
LONDON, March 519. Between the
lines Of the politely worded editorial
comments on resident McKinley's ex-
preston Of willingness to aid in the res
Etoration Of peace between Great Britain
and the Boer republi les can be discerned
every evidence Of an inward irritation
which the less responsible public does
not hesitate to outwardly express, while
members Of the government quietly dis
play pique that Of all the powers Amer
lea should have consented to- assume
what one official desig ignated as the sun-
gracious role Of suggesting some form
of interfe !, = to which he added this
expression
Cannot Help Contrasting 1t.
gland cannot help contrasting the
perfect correctness Of the attitude of
openly unfriendly France with the offer
of the United States, which, If it had
come from less disint nterested source
could only have been regarded as an IN
friendly act. y 81 s}t55
There is no doubt that the overtures
Sof the United States, even though they
were carefully worded, have ostensibly
sirritated Great Britain as whole, while
circles especially friendly to the United
States express open regret at the
sopportu unity offered to compare the
refusal of NJ. Delcasse, the French min.
ister Of foreign affairs, to crafty the
hostile sentimen in France by making
proposals to Lord Salisbury which were
sure Of rejecti ion with what they testify
call the '.interference : ! Of Washington
and which, though only tentative and
clothed III words Of perfect friendliness
and courtesy, came at an inoppor tune
moment when the supreme self -sufffi.
cheney Of the British empire is the pre-
dominating feeling Of the day. #s
Everywhere one hears expressions Of
satisfaction that while the answersto
the proposal was clothed in words Of
perfect courtesy the language Of Lord
Salisbury in brushing aside Presi-
dent cKinley' IS proffer was so ex-
treme1y definite as to kill all possibility
of a repetition Of the offers from any
source unless those proposing them are.
Sdesirous of being recognized as openly
antag gonistic to this country.
In the lobbies Of parliament it Is ru-i
mored that Lord Roberts is about to-
Issue proclamation announcing that
the former system Of governmen in the.
Orange Free State lis abolished and
promising Free Staters who immedi-s
ately surrender due consid deration. tt
is understood that all the continental
powers, with one exception, i
Refused to Intervene.
The exception was Russia whose reply.
was couehed in less firm language, al-3
though, like the others, she declined to
interfere. II lis said that the pope was
also appealed to, but that be declined to-
do anything beyond writing letter to-
the Queen, appealing to her to stop the
further effusion Of blood.
DR. Leyd s' efforts with King Leopold
were quite futile.
The possibility of the 4 destruction Of
Johanne esburg is still discussed here,
but ii is believed that the French and
German sharehol ders would offer a.
strong protest.
The latest advices respecting the sur
rende Of Bloem fontein show that the
approach of the British caused d sta1n-
pede. Thirteen trains, each composed
3of 40 cars and all cranlIned with Beers;
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