| Show PEACE IS ASSURED London Chronicle Claims This Morning Morn-ing That War in South Africa is Practically Ended London May 23The Dally Chron Iclo this morning claims that peace In South Africa is practically assured This is also the general Impression with the other newspapers and the public although the former do not go so far as iho assertion published by the Chronicle At a late hour last night however the Government departments declined i t i i b It Is understood that important i I dispatches dis-patches were received yesterday from Lord Milner the British High I I Commissioner Commis-sioner In Son Ui Africa and from Lord Kitchener but nothing can be ascertained ascer-tained ns to the nature of the contents of these dispatches The fact that the Cabinet was summoned sum-moned so quickly after the arrival of the delegates at Pretoria Is regarded as a good augury as the discussions at Pretoria could only be commenced Monday The Cabinet will meet Into this afternoon in order to enable the Ministers who are at a distance to reach London in lime for the meetIng meet-Ing A dispatch to lie Daily Telegraph from Pretoria ays that the Boers arc seeking permission to retain their horses The Daily Mail this morning sas it undeTsia nds that owing to the protracted pro-tracted haggling of the Boer leaders at Pretoria Great Britain has presented to them what Is practically an ultimatum ulti-matum their reply to which is awaited and which it Is expected they will accept ac-cept Dispatches received here from Pretoria Pre-toria continues the Daily Mall say that during the stay of the Doer delegates dele-gates there I lie conference will continue tit Vcreenlging and that a majority of those present at the conference are trying to persuade the recalcitrant minority mi-nority Into a unanimous vote In the meantime lie British columns have been resting and refitting and are now all ready for Immediate action The Dally Mall says It believes the delegates dele-gates at Pretoria will dispatch the ultimatum ulti-matum lo the conference at Vereenlslng for Its consideration |
