Show PEACE IN TRANSVAAL LOOKED LOOI D FOR FOE London March 10 Advices from two great South African commercial houses confirm the advices that Lord Kitch Kitchener Kitchener ener and General Gen ral Botha have been in negotiation for six days Peace or at least a 3 long step toward the end of the war var Is looked for next week The war Ivar office last night refused to contribute anything to these great cx ex expectations which include according to some the making of a formal submission slon sion by Botha on Monday when his forces will surrender to French Among the versions as to what is go goIng goIng going Ing on there is one with some official countenance that the government is offering Botha far more liberal terms than the parliamentary declarations have given any idea of The only thing limiting these cheerful speculations is the that De Dc Larey I Dewet evet and Steyn Stern regardless of ot what happens on Guy wage guerrilla warfare arf re South African dispatches show that the British operations continue to be haUper a by heavy rains For eight days General G Frenchs forces were un under under under der Incessant Inc sant rains without cover tover and with Ith reduced rations Now however hoever the troops are on full rations again The correspondent of the Daily Dany Mail says the British troops unearthed Boer Beer gold valued at on the Swaziland border borderA A special dispatch from Cape Gape Town dated March 8 says the Boers Beers lost forty killed in an engagement with an armored train near They mistook the train for one loaded with horses houses and allowed it to te come within range whereupon fire was opened from the train and the Boers Beers Bo rs tn fled d some of them abandoning their rifles Dispatches from Amsterdam and Brussels say that Mr entourage entourage age continues to profess Ignorance of the existence of negotiations declaring that General Botha cannot act for the Orange Free State and that In any an case casc no terms are possible unless Lord Kitchener is prepared to discuss in de dependence dependence |