Show J IF RUOER GIVES VP r i What England Will Do if t Boers Lay Down Arms i4 PROMISE GIVEN BURGHERS Should Oora Paul Make Announce John Bull Will mont of Surrender Permit the Boers to Create a Hew Republic in the Worth Half of the rh Triuisvanl There Is Every Pros Take Will Soon pect That Krugcr This Course Learned Something on His Visit to France Berlin Dec 7The London corre it Bpondcnt of the Lclpslgcr Tageblatt i has received from a highlyplaced personage I per-sonage In England the following communication com-munication If the Boers should now Biirrcnder England will permit them to create a new Boer republic In the tk northern half of the Transvaal It la Jn j order to keep the possibility of this open that England has not yet officially yJ announced to the powers the annexation annexa-tion of the Transvaal 1 One of the flrst conditions however td IB that the announcement of surrender must come from Krugcr There Is every prospect that he will soon be Inclined In-clined to this course Ills visit to Franco has taught him that any number num-ber of empty assurances of sympathy ttT will not result in the slightest practical rpj practi-cal help Germany will make a further contribution to the education of Mr J p atq Kruger and It vlll be to her alone that the Boers will owe thanks if England makes them concessions tc This statement acquires some Importance i Import-ance by the fact that the senilofHcInl i Post reproduces It and adds that It does not sound Improbable and that England has every Incentive to erect a si strong bulwark against the warlike X7 tribes of Central Africa In order to 4 assure the possession of the territory t they have just conquered |