New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-13
NEWS OF TWO CAPITALS
LONDON.
PEACE PROSPECTS NOT AS ROSEATE AS
PAINTED.
AFFAIRS ON THE CONTINENT-BRiTlsH
POLITICS UNEXCITING-SOME E'A-
HIBITIONS OF PAINTINGS
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London anri 1.-THE rumormongers are
| making heavy drafts upon public credullty' anu
! helping incidentally. TO raise prices in capei
| Court and supply the newspapers with ca'ch-
penny posters. The Kings return from i'i'
| holiday cruise and hasty summons for a Capi-
| net meeting are enlarged upon as evidence 'iia'
proposals for peace have been submitted liiide-
| ination takes high flight and inVents rosea'e
fctions respecting the Boer surrender and the
| magnanimity OF the British conditions OF peace.
| The War Office fails to confirm the rumors
| that dafnita ,,ronosals have been made from
| Klerksdorn and publishes the details OIL d
| scheme for sending out twenty thousand re-
| Inducements to Africa. While the air Is iiicu
| with hopeful conjecture, there is lack Oh au
| thoritative information. To use coIfipd'i''''
suggested by the cold and inclemeht APii'
weather there distant leads of open "ate''
but The icepack still holds together There is an
| improved prospect for peace, but hopooy hho"
! how an armistice be arranged ana the
| main question of settling the feud between the
victors and the vanqushed be worked out
The R-itish Government has plainly author
| lied Lord Kitchener to offer every facility 1or
| enabling the Beers in the field to confer ana
| communicate with Utrecht, where Mr. krueer
| has been Joined by DR.. Leyds. Mr. Vessels ana
| other European agents. The secret understand
| ing which preceded Mr.. Schalkburgers mission
has not been disclosed. but it is evident that the
| Roers will ask for larger terms than the gov
| ernment can grant and that peace cannot be
made without prolonged negotiations and final
! compromise.
| The Beers will profit to the full extent by the
knowledge that the court and the government
| here are anxious to end the before the
coronation, but they will probably receive early
assurance that they cannot obtain unreasona-
| BILE terms involving an artificial settlement
| Mr. Chamberlain is n practical man of business,
without sentiment. and his voice viii be de-
| cisive.
The best informed men, in close touch with the
| government. do not expect the suspension or
hostilities before the closing weeks of May.
Time will be required before the Beers In
| Klerksdorp and Utrecht will be convinced that
the government cannot be coerced into ordering
a hollow truce for the sake of temporary en-
joyment of the holiday revel. The Beers can OBJ
| tain. however, the most generous terms. FOR
there is no bitterness against them in England
Admiration for their determined defence and
wonderful fighting powers is so Intense that
colonial warnings against excess of good nature
NAV not be III timed Mr. Chamberlain and
Lord Kitchener are good men for the momen-
tous occasion. for they are both men of iron
will without mawkish softness.
The Manchurian convention has naturally
been accepted by the British press sequel
to the Anglo-Japanese agreement. While it
provides for Russian evacuation by gradual
stages. and dispenses with selfish schemes for
tho monopolv of trade. il leaves the Trans
Asian railway under the control of the power
which never abandons ambitious projects. but
stands and waits for the convenient time OF
carrying them out. A temporary halt has oeen
ordered in the Russian march across Asia and
during the interval the facilities for a land at
tack upon China viii be gradually increased
Nothing but collective action by the United
States, the British Empire and Germany is likely
TO block the ultimate extension OF RUSSIAN uo-
minion to the Pacific.
The westward movement Of Russian ambition
has not escaped the attention OF Germany, where
the Russifica ton of Finland has been regarded
as a halfway house the road to the subjuga-
ton of the northern provinces of the two
Scandinavian kingdoms.
THE Times prints to-day a large type arti-
Gle by Edmund Gosse showing that Norway Is
keenly alive to the forces pressing Russia on
ward toward the North Atlantic Ocean. and that
defensive measures have not been neglected
There are imaginative dreamers in Russia al
though they do not covet graves among the
icebergs, nor arrange international trusts for
the coeducation of students of the world in ST.
Petersburg and Moscow
There are no signs that the Agrarians in the
Reichstag have relinquished the determination
to sacrifice the commercial relations or Germany
in tho insensate attempt to establish a prOhibi-
tory tariff agricultural products The
struggle is continued with constant warnings
from the ministers that without moderation and
concIiation the bill must be abandoned
The discomfort of Spanish farmers caused by
priceS is of the many
sources of danger to which Senor Sagasta is ex-
posed in Offering a coorless programme of legis-
lation while waiting for the young Kings ap-
preaching fete.
The riotous frenzy has disappeared at BARGE
Iona but there has been strange outbreak Of
street disorders Brussels. where the socialists
sing revolutionary songs in the streets, and are
barely prevented from constructing barricades
in the Partisan style by bayonet charges of
mounted troops. The Belgian outbreak is curl
ously modern and unlike the South American
revolutions of the time of political excitement.
The socialist leaders have organized the forces
of svmpathizers in the streets, while they them
selves are obstructing the work of the chambers
interrupting financial supplies and striving to
force radical reform measures upon the country
They are aided by extensive labor revoits in
mining and other districts are threatening to
order n general strike If the government at
employ q military loTce Oh large
scaIe for the maintenance of public order Uni
xerssI suffrage is the first goal of the socialists
and the abolition of clericaism the second. The
anarchists are in the background plotting the
suhverson of all the principles Of government
and obstructing the passage Of legitimate reform
measures.
British politics are without novelty or excite
ment The resumption of the debate in the
procedure has shown how inert is Mr.. Bafour's