The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1900-05-22
tAG T[QrE WILL Bt DIFFICULT
Britaln's Determination to Annex the
Boer Territory-Immedia Ces-
sation of the war Does not
Seem Likely.

New York, May 21.-The Suns
military expert today says:
'The most important news for
the moment is the reported will
ingness of the Beers to sue for
peace. AS yet the offers of sub
mission come only from the Free
Staters, whose properties are
covered by the British occupa-
ton, but they are accompanied
by conditions which the British
decline to entertain. AS yet
there is no indication of the
terms on which the Transvaalers
are prepared to make peace, but
it is understood that they will
not do so unconditionally.
"Under the circumstances,
there seems no probability that
immediate peace can be had, as
the recent speech.of Mr.. Joseph
Chamberlain has made it quite
plain that none of the things
which The. Beers are standing
out for will be-eonceded them by
the British government. III
conditional surrender, with poll
tical disfranchisement and other
disabilities to follow, are the best
terms they have to expect, to-
gether with the breaking up of
their territorial divisions and a
redistribution of them into new
administrative districts, to be
governed as crown colonies.
Natal is to be compensated for
it's losses and sacrifices by the
annexation of a considerable ex-
tent of Boer territory, and infOr-
nation from Cape Town says it
is intended to annihilate the
Dutch AfrlkanCer majority in
the Cape Colony Parliament by
detaching number of the
northern distrlcts-the pOpula-
ton of which is almost exclusive
ly of Dutch origin-from the
colony and annexing them to the
Free State, which is to be con-
stituted the Orange River Crown
Colony. In this way, a British
majority is to be created in the
Cape Colony, which will be left
in possession of modified consti-
tutional privileges, less liberal
and more subject to colonial Office
control than this now enjoyed.
"If the Beers with the pro.
gramme recently outlined by Mr..
Joseph Chamberlain before him,
are willing to surrender, the war
is practically ct an end; but if the
Transvaalers are going to stand
out for the maintenance of their
independence, it will have TO go
on until they are beaten down,
which, unless foreign complica-
tions call for the British army in
some other directions, is only d
matter of time, no matter how
heroically the burghers may
fight. Their only chance, appa-
rently, is in England finding her
self involved in more serious en-.
tanglements, and there are nc
signs of such on the surface OF
affairs.
"The proposal made to Lord
Roberts by Gen. DeWet 10 sur.
-, render with 1000 of his men, or
, condition that they are not to be
, sent to Cape Town or St. Helena
are interesting, Lord Roberts
reply affords no encouragement
to them or the others who may
, contemplate surrender, unles:
unconditional, Meanwhile, the
British show no relaxation il
their preparations for pushing
the campaign. Gen. Butler, i!
e moving steadily up toward Volk
c srust, the Beers headquarteri
!. near Laings' Mex; and Genera
Runnel has arrived at Trommel
{ just half way in a direct line be
tween Winburg and Eicksburg
: in the Free State"