The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-26
HIS IMPERIAL GERMAN MAJESTY
SOON TO APPEAR IN NEW
ROLE
TO ACT AS A PEACEMAKER
VIII Act for the Beers in NegOtia-
tiOns With Great Britain to
End the South Afri-
can War.
TALE OF LONDON EXPRESS

LONDON July 26.-The rumor as to
early peace negotiations which has per-
Vaded the house of commons for several
days, says the Daily Express, has taken
the more definite form that Emperor
William is soon to assume the role of
peacemaker.
Mr.. Kruger and his advisers are repre-
sented as having empowered the kaiser
to act for the Beers, and he is consider
ed willing to take the initiative in order
to popularize his relations with the Ger
man public, who disapprove of his friend
ship for Great Britain. Something is
on foot, whether Emperor William is in
IL or not. Mr.. Krueger's arrival at The
Hague is connected, the Daily Express
thinks, with the rumored peace sug-
gestions.
Gen. Arthur Paget has been given a
command in South Africa. He sails Au-
gust 10 to take up his new duties.
In the house of commons tonight Mr..
Brodrick, the war secretary, during the
debate on the war VOTE replying to sug-
gestions that Great Britain ought to
adopt the higher rates of pay in force In
the United States said:
The United States calls for only one
man to every thousand Of the popula-
ton for military service Great Britain
calls upon one in every hundred of her
pay which attracts only one in every
thousand would draw one in every hun
! dred"
Mr.. Brodrick added that recruiting al
though not as nigh as during the ex-
citing period of the war, was still higher
! than before
The District Metropolitan railway has
! declined the offer of Charles IT. Yerkes
TO introduce electricity into it's system
partly because of unwillingness to sur
render control of the line.
Mr. Yerkes and his associates offered
TO guarantee 31a per cent on the exist
ing stock, instead of the present low
! rate, but the directors decided TO issue
! fresh capital and make the installation
| themselves. 'O--
REVOLT AGAINST CENSORs.
Ihe war correspondents in South Africa
| nave united in a belated revolt aoai,,s+
the military censorship. Mr.. Rennett
6urlelgh' veteran of many campaigns
uescIlpes the censorship as a "bungIe and
oiunue[' ana declares that the sooner
tno "nole matter of unofficial cor
respondence is put upon a defnfte hasis
con1ormable to free Institutions the bet-
! ter 1t will be for everybody. Mr. Edgar
wallace asserts that there is nothing ca
Iar as the military position Is concerned
TO Justlry the maintenance of censorship
ana that it is creating a bad precedent
SINCE the only service which it can render
Is poHucal one savoring somewhat Of
Russia; nay, it is Krugerian"
1t is not easy to understand what ara
the political motives for the suppression
Oh news from the seat of war The gov
eThmeht has We'll drilled obedient ma
JoIlly IN the commons and is supported
by the great mass of opinion in the
country. There is no revolt against it,
eICher on the ministerial side or in the
constituencies where by-elections are
helo The opposition is faction-rent and
demorallZed and quite incapable of offer
ing strenuous resistance to government
policies; and the pro-Boer agitators have
made no impression upon public opinion
1here is no alternate government possi
ple while the campaign remains In pro
gress and ministers have no conceivable
reason for dreading possible revelations
from the seat of war. Some of the incl
uents which have been suppressed would
| pear heavily against the advocates of the
| Dutch cause, both here and on the contt-
nent. The Vlakfontein atrocities for ex-
ample, If fully confirmed in detail would
tend to aiienate the sympathy of irrecon-
| clllable Radicals and admiring foreigneru
for the Beers The fact that the horri
! BILE story of the shooting Of the wounded
! has been suppressed for over a month and
! IeII 10 come out little by little in soldiers
letters to their friends at home, excites
suspicion that there may have been dras-
! tic measures on the British side in effect
ing the clearance of various districts and
in establishing concentration camps
TRANSVAAL LEAGUES OFFER.
! CHICAGO, July 26.-Stirred by the re-
port recently submitted to the house Of
! lords by Lord Raglan, under secretary of
the English war office, of the number of
| men, women and children who died dur
! ing the month of June in the refugee
camps in South Africa, the TransvaaI
league of this city, through the depart
ment of state at Washington offered to
remove a number of people from these
camps, and bring them to this country,
or transport them to Europe.
The offer was made on July 13 through
Secretary Hay. The Transvaal league
officers to take as many people from these
camps as its means will allow and to
guarantee to the British government that
all people so removed shall be removed
from South Africa.
Today word was received from the state
| department that the matter had been for
! warded to Mr.. Choate in London with the
request that he use his good offices in
1ox ha Of ba loo hot Io