Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-09-07
BOER GENERALS AND
Mr.. CHAMBERLAIN
Conference With the Score
tary for the Colonies.
NO IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS,
Mr. Chamberlain Not In Position, ow'
lng to Certain Conditions In the
Colonies, TO Secure Any important
Conc cessions for the Beers Now.

London, Sept. 6-Nothing importan
is believed to have issued from tn
conference held yesterday by the co
lonial officer and the Bosr generals
Botha, Dewet and Delarey. Their
may be, however, slight modification
of the plans outlined for the settle
4 ment Of masters in the annexed terri
tories, but they will be in the nature
international changes, more interest
ing to political economists than to tht
world at large; and even these vii
only occur after Mr.. Chamberlain shal
have consulted with Lord Miner, Brit
ish commissioner in South Africa, anC
after such consultation, have laid thu
matter before the cabinet.
What transpired at yesterdays con
| ference is little more than what hap
pens when one of the members OF tbs
cabinet receives trade or other dele
cation in support Of It's particular
views. No topic really vital to the
conquered republics, so far as then
relations to the outside world are con
cerned, could be admitted to discus
sion. Such points were irreyocably
settled VIXEN the terms of peace were
signed.
The concessions which the BoeP gen
erals urged Mr. Chamberlain to make
were almost vitally important to indi
vidual Beers, especially to land own
ers, but of comparatively small i'm
portanoe to the rank and file In Eng
land, except to those who, through in
vestments or otherwise, are directly
concerned in South Africa.
Except for the breaking Of prece
dents, hampering Lord Miner and an
tagonizing the Liberals of Cape Colo
ny and Natal, it may safely be saiC
| that Mr. Chamberlain might easil!
have conceded all the generals asked
The exceptions, however, involve gC
many wheels within wheels that tht
discussions are likely to be protract
cd, with a result that will combine al
much of a compromise as is consisten
with the imperial dignity. These
| halfway courses and undramatic de
movements do not enter into the reck
oning Of the English public. whose i'm
agination has been unusually fired By
accounts Of Fridays conference. Moth
| ing has so forcibly brought home Il
the average Englishman the end of thu
| war as the visit of the Boer generals
to Mr., Chsmberlain's office, and III
| possible results are magnified out o
all reckoning. The British govern
ment will give the Beers all 1t can IL
a desire to gain their cooperation Il
| the establishment of the new regime
but already there is a good-sized storm
breaking among the Beers of Capt
Colony, Natal and Rhodesia and amonI
! the British residents of the South Al
rican colonies over what Is termed
''the imperial governments anxiety e
reward disloyalty and aggression" On,
of the colonial prsmiers recently sale
to a representative Of the Associated
Press:
"Mr. Chamberlain Is more scared
now by the South African loyalisti
than he was by the BoeBA. With sucl
conditions prevailing it is obviously
impossible for Mr. Chamberlain i'm
mediately to secure any important con
cessions for the Beers, even though
he may recognize the justice Of thei
claims"