The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-06-05
Peace Negotiations Brought to
a Close Saturday Night.
BRITISH TERMS ACCEPTED
Agreement Signed by All the BoeI
Leaders-General Rejoicing in
Londc.-

LONDON, June 2-lt is peace
at last, an inglorious but honora-
ole peace. News came OF the
signing of the terms of Boer sur
render yesterday afternoon. The
authorities wisely decided not to
wait for Mr.. Balfour's promised
announcement in the house Oh
commons today. Therefore,
they gave the welcome tidings
to the people after a short de-
lay.
The news was contained in the
following dispatch from Lord
Kitchener, which was posted al
the war Office:
PRETORIA, May 31-11:15 P.
M.-The negotiations with the
Boer delegates have been con-
cluded. Documents containing
the terms of surrender were
signed this evening at 1890 by
all of the Boer delegates, as well
as by Lord Miner and myself. .
An unofficial dispatch says that
the British authorities have is.
sued proclamation terminating
a number of civil proclamations
in the Boer government issued IN
October, 1899, at the commence.
ment of the war. These deal
with the currency and claims fol
interest on mortgages prior to
June 1, 1902. 1t directs that nc
action of law be entertained fol
claims thereon until December 1,
1902.
The following message from
the king was published late last
night:
The King has received the
welcome news of the cessation O1
hostilities in South Africa with
infinite satisfaction, and trusts
that peace may speedily be fol-
lowed by the retoration of pros
perity in his new dominions and
that the feelings necessarily en-
gendered by the war will give
place to earnest cooperation by
all his majesty's South African
subjects in promoting the welfare
of their common country.
No details of the terms of the
Beer submission have been pub
lished. The bare announcement
of the surrender Of all the force:
of the former republics is all thai
is vOuchsafed. But the terms
which the Beers have accepted
are on the whole less liberal, anG
their future rights and privileges
are more strictly curtailed thar
in the offers which they might
have availed themselves earlier
in the war. This will occasion
surprise here and elsewhere. The
explanation is that the Beers
have struggled throughout the
negotiations not for their owr
interests, but for those of theil
allies from the Cape Colony, wh(
in their character of rebels are
liable to grievous penalties
Thus has the Boe- nation perish
ed in the last act of chivalry.
1t is a further surprise that the
Beers have preserved unanimity
even in their final submission
All the recognized leaders have
Joined in the surrender. Mr.
Steyn. ex- President of the Orange
Free State, is the only prominen
representative who has mo-
signed the capitulatlon, and his
signature is absent simply be
cause he is prostrated with pa
ralysis and unable to hold a pen
AS for the rank and file, the
chief commanders have assured
General Kitchener that, while
there are some individuals ire
concilable, the vast majority viii
submit. Those who still refuse
to bend the knee to great Britain
will probably join the Cape Col
ony rebels.
The sedition in that Colony il
greater now than at any earlier
period of the war, and 1t by M
means follows that the rebellion