Show MORE PEACE TALK I London Financial Circles Believe Negotiations Ne-gotiations With the Boers Have Been Reopened London Jan 16A strong belief prevailed pre-vailed In financial circles here late to < ay that negotiations for peace had boon reopened between the leading Boors and the Brlllsh Government South African stocks rose In aympalhy with the reports The exact nature o hat was going on was not known but a representative of the Associated Press learned that leading Boers had Indirectly approached the Government protesting against the appropriation of farms in the Transvaal or Orange River colonies by Brlllsh settlers which system is now being rapidly pushed and that strong Influence had been brought to bear on the Boer leuderfl to save at least a vestige of property for their followers Whether what Is passing today be twcon the Boer and the British Government Gov-ernment can be termed peace negotiations negotia-tions or what will be their result can only remain speculation for the present pres-ent Tho stock exchange evidently takes n hopeful view of the outcome Nothing definite can be ascertained with regard to the alleged peace move ni cut The Vienna papers declare that the Government of the Netherlands has entered Into confidential negotiations with the Boer leaders with n view of bringing the war to an end Dispatches from Brussels assert that Dr Lords the European rcprcsenla Uvr of the Transvaal still opposes anT an-T egollatlons but that other Boer leaders lead-ers have been conferring among themselves them-selves and with Dr Kuypers the Dutch Premlor with a i vlow to arranging arrang-ing negotiations None of these stories have I very solid hauls In the Budget committee of the ftulch chamber yesterday several members complained that the Government Gov-ernment had taken no steps to Intervene Inter-vene in South Africa |