Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-03-15
KRUGER SAYS WILL NEVER YIELD.
'Retreating to First Line Of Defense
british Will Never
Reach Pretoria"
TO HE B,TTER END.

New York. March 1.-THE Evening
Journal prints the following cablegram
from President Kruger Of the South
African republic:
Pretoria, March 14.-Via Berlin,
March Ito the editor Of the Evening
Journal. New York: The burghers will
only cease lighting with death.
our forces are retrrating in good
order ~ our first line Nc defence on our
own soil.
The Natal campaign was longer in
our favor than W. expected.
The British viii never reach Pre-
toria.
The lurshers, Steyn. Joubert and
myself al We'll Us all the others are
united.
There are no differences.
God help Us. (Signed) KRUGER"
Pretoria Monday March 12.-Via
Lourenzo Marquee. Tuesday. March l..
lord Salisbury's reply to Presidents
Kruger ana Steyn causes bitter disap-
pointment. ana State Secretary Reitz
says it means that the war will have
ID be- fought To the bitter end.
Washington. March 1.-THE answer
of Lord Salisbury to the message from
President Kruger ana Steyn, which
was transmitted through our govern
mcnt, was received at late hour last
night, by Secretary Hay, through Mr.
White. our charge at London. AS al
ready indicated in the London dis
patches. the answer is 4 deClinatiOn Of
the appeal. 1t has been transmitted
to Adelbert Hay, United States consul
at Pretoria, who will submit il to the
two presidents.
This marks the end Of the first over
ture toward peace. 1t is believed here,
however that another effort will soon
be made by the Beers to attain peace
though recourse may be had to some
other agency than the United States
The President has decided that il is
not proper at this time to make public
the text of the communications which
have passed between Pretoria. London
and Washington relative to the peace
negotiations. Therefore the Allen res
olution adopted by the Senate. calling
for the correspondence must remain
unanswered for the present although
maintaining secrecy on this point will
soon disappear.
1t is stated. however, that the press
dispatches have indicated the salient
features of the correspondence with
sufficient accuracy, and about the only
omission so far as can be learned was
the failure to develop the fact that the
appeal of the BOer government that
the United States might be allowed to
intervene, was accompanied by an
earnest expression by the President of
his Willingness to do anything within
his power to bring about the termina-
tion Of the war which he hoped might
be attained. Lord Salisbury's reply,
while firmly declining the request of
the BOer government, conveyed his ap-
probation Of the commendable senti-
ments which inspired the Presidents
utteranceS.
Inasmuch as there appears to be
some confusion in the public mind re-
specting the various efforts made by
the Beers TO end the war, it may be
stated that this particular correspon-
dence passing through the state de-
partment, was separate and apart from
the note addressed by Presidents Kru-
ger and Steyn to nearly all the CONT
nents believed to be in sympathy with
their cause and was also distinct from
the appeal addressed directly to Lord
Salisbury by the two presidents, which
with his lordships answer. formed the
subject Of the communication made,
yesterday. by him to the President.
Berlin March 1.-THE weekly re-
viewer If the Kreuz Zeitung, who is a
we'll known professor and entertains
close relations with Count Won BuelOw,
asserts, today that Emp aro- Nicholas, at
the beginning Of the war in South
Africa. gave formal pledge that Rus
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