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Show BOMS WANT PEACE. KnUEGER ASKS FOR AN ARMISTICE ARMIS-TICE PENDING NEGOTIATIONS. Hi'KUli l'rrc'sn to r.ellove It i, a l:0vc to tlaln Time Hint are i,(t illKposetl to runt the Keijlu-Ht. President Krugcr has appealed to Lord Salisbury for a cessation of hostilities, hos-tilities, offering- at length by cable the terms which lie was willing to accept. These, however, have not been taken seriously, as they included practically nothing- more than what the Transvaal government offered prior to the issuing of the P.ritish nlli matnm. Ollieial circles in London regard the proposition as merely a ruse of the Boers lo gain time, and do notconsider that President Km per is yet ready to consider the sweeping demands which Great Pritain will make as reimbursement reimburse-ment for the loss of life and great expenditure. ex-penditure. The proposed terms include a guarantee of the independence of the two republics. It is understood that President Kru-ger's Kru-ger's advances have met with an emphatic em-phatic rejection at the hands of Lord Salisbury, who is believed to have said that no such attempt to retain the independence in-dependence of the Transvaal can he considered for a moment by the British government. |