The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-03-13
PEACE SEEIMIS:.IN SIGHT
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should have counted cost before thev
made war. They played for a great
stake and have LOST ,fintI they are
ready for unconditional surrender they
may save themselves thestrouble of send.
ing communications tolo her matesty's
government To
1--WE are glad to see that it understood.
in the United States as well as on tha
continent. that any prefer of mediation
will be distinctly repugnant to this co,,n-
try
No further news has been received
from Mafeking, but it turns out thai
Col. Peakman commands the relief col
umn which is marching from Kimberley.
PEACE TALK is FIRST.
LONDON. March 12-Lord Roberts ia
making very rapid advance and he Ia
again misleading the Beers by continuing
the advance southwark instead of
through the fiat country due east IF
Aasvogel Kop. He will probably seize
the railway south of Bloemfontein, and
although another battle is probable II ia
more likely that the Beers are only en-
deavoring to delay his advance until all
the rolling stock OF the railway and the
stores and troops from the Orange river
district can be gotten away north
SNOAA SOllIuSLC6 IS now IGIt In the mill
tary operations that interest rather CEN
ters in the political outlook The Daily
News quotes Whitelaw Reid as saving
in a private letter
L give you hearty congratulations on
the changed aspect of the war. II Is
an immense relief to us all. as well as TO
YOU"
This view" says the Daily News. 'is
welcome as expressing with an unusual
measure of authority. enlightened public
feeling In the United States"
Except In the case of Germany the
replies of the powers to the Boer appeals
for intervention are not yet known pub
fcly here. but it is quite certain that
Austro-Hungary and ItaIy will decline to
interfere. and there is no apprehension
that anything will come Of the overtures
of the two republics
A dispatch from Bourehzo Marquee an
nounces the arrival there of Mr.. Fischer
the Orange Free State secretary. and
Mr.. Woolmarans. member of the Trans
vaal executive council! tit is not known
whether they are Bound on a mission
to foreign powers or to Sir Alfred Miner
MIR. Woolmarans Is in President Kruger's
confidence & -
BRITISH, LOSSES.
The war office this morning issued the
following dispatch ifrom; Aasvogel Kop,
under date of March IL, :95 a. M:
We were unopposed during the march
yesterday. The officer I left at the last
camp to record theijiist of casualties has
not yet arrived TThes following addi-
tional casualties are Known. however:
''Kiiied-Lieuts. +. N. Parsons and A.
B. Coddington, of the Essex regiment.
'Wounded-Lieuts. G.. n. Berkeley (se-
verely); Lloyd Arm and G. Fl. Raleigh
Gen. Gatacre reports that he was
within a mile of the Bethulie railroad
bridge yesterday. The bridge was par
TALLY destroyed and the enemy was hold
Ing the opposite bank
GEN. CRONJE, CHEERFUL.
CAPE TOWN, March Thames G..
Stowe, United States consul here. has
paid a visit to Gen. Gronje, at the lat
ter's request. on board the British cruis-
err Doris They. conNeFsed- with the aid
of an interpreter. Gen. Crofje ex-
pressed great satisfaction with his sur
roundings and with the treatment he had
received at the hands of the British
Mr.. Stowe has also visited the camp
where the Boer prisoners are at Simons-
town. He was shown where they had
excavated tunnel for distance of
twenty-five yards with the dishes and
cups. If the tunnel had been continued
another dozen yards their escape would
have been possible. One of, the prisoners
gave information of the plot.
GERMANY DECLINES.
DURHAM, Monday, March 12-The
Transvaal having appealed to Germany
for mediation or Intervention In the war
with Great Britain, Germany has replied
that she declines to interfere as she is
in no way concerned in the conflict.
AMERICAS POSITION EXPLAINED.
PARIS, March 13.7-The Gaulo!s pub
fishes the following from its London cor
respondent:
According to good authority President
Kruger and President Steyn have not
made a formal proposition of peace, but
have asked the British government
through the United States, the conditions
1t would accept for the opening of nego-
tiations on the basis of the independence
Of the republics"
The London correspondent of the Matin
says:
81 learn that United States Ambassa-
dor Choate received" last evening a long
and important cable from the United
States government relative to South
Africa, which he will communicate today
to Lord Salisbury