Kruger Knows of No Peace Move
If Botha Is Negotiating, the President Does Not Know of It
A London dispatch questions reports that Boer General Botha had reopened peace talks with the British, noting former Boer President Kruger's continued insistence on independence.
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Daily Inter Mountain · April 11, 1901 · Page 1
1 min readNew York, April 11.
A special dispatch to the Tribune from London says: The report that General Botha has reopened peace negotiations lacks official confirmation, although one correspondent in sending the news from Capetown describes it as semi-official. The fact, however, that the telegram has been allowed to go over the wires by the military censor should not be taken as a guarantee of its correctness. Only the other day Mr. Kruger scouted the idea of peace without independence and asserted passionately that his officers in South Africa were of his opinion; but if there should be any truth in the report of the revival of negotiations, it is clear that the ex-president must have been misinformed, for it must follow that any idea of securing the independence of the republics has been finally abandoned by the Boers. It is entirely possible that General Botha does not find it easy to cooperate with De Wet but statements about the latter's mental decay contrast sharply with the accounts of the famous raider's foresight and fertility of resource during his recent retreat from Cape Colony.
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