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Show IT LOOKS LIKES PEACE White Winged Dove in Measureable Distance. THIS SUMS UP THE RUMORS To Arrive nt Conclusion to Ehd n Conflict of Such Length, Involving So Many Lasting and Intricate Issues, Is-sues, Will Require Time I Negotiations Nego-tiations Seml-Oluclnl ' .at ment as to Proposition the B' srs vVoulil Accept Another Cablnwt Meeting Is Called for Today. London, April 13 "Peace Is within mensurnblo iltstanc" That probably sums up tho present crop of rumors, conjectures and deductlona which has Great Urltalu by tho enrs. Is it reaco?' meetn the ce In glaring posters pos-ters of newspapers nnd the question Is to-echoed throughout tho United Kingdom King-dom As pointed out In these dispatches jesterdav and confirmed nt midnight by Mr llalfour, the Government leader In tho House of Commons, the reports of the definite end of a conlllct of bitch length, Involving so many lasting mil Intricate, Issues, being 1 cached practically practi-cally without any time being devoted to negotiation, arc palpably piemutuic, MPbSAai: pitoM imciiEXKii. It Is announced flint the Ministers nt todaj's meeting which lasted nil hour, discussed a communication from Lonl Kitchener This Is quite within reason nnd novel nment circles expect seveial similar messages from Lord Kltchenei befoie anything deflnlto con bo announced an-nounced Idle Lord Kitchener's message mny have been of vital Impottnnce, the Associated As-sociated Press h is good reasons to bo-llevo bo-llevo that the sudden summons of tho Cabinet Ministers was duo to a dosha to decide whether or not tho prescntn-tlon prescntn-tlon of the budget could bo postponed until the Klcrksdorp negotiations aro settled one way or the other. Whatever tho proposals of the Chancellor Chan-cellor of tho Exchequer, Mr Michael Illcks-Ueach, ma be, they oro bound to bo greeted by Btorms of criticism from vurlom quarters Pcnco will not modify modi-fy the crying need of additional love-nuc, love-nuc, but It would tnko off tho sting from tho additional taxntlon which is bound to raise a. protest from every diss of Industry nrfected. ln tho national na-tional Jubllitlon over tho end of the war theso Industrial protests will bo lost to sight. MAY POSTPONE PRESENTATION. It will bo no surprise If it Is announced an-nounced on Monday thit tho budnet prcsentntlon onco moro has been postponed, post-poned, nnd If this does take place pai-llamentary pai-llamentary circles will regard It as one of tho best omens th it tho Government practically Is assured of o, successful termination of tho Klcrksdorp conference. Tho Cabinet council today, whllo It probably did not fulfill tho sensationally attributed function of deciding between peace or war. undoubted!) reviewed tho entire situation, both ns icgards flnnncu nnd the situation In South Africa Af-rica How complicated and Impossible of off-hand solution Is tho latter question ques-tion con bo Judged by nn apparently authentic statement published ln tho Edinburgh News this afternoon. Tho News, whose editor Is In close touch with Mr. Kruger, declares on the highest authority that the Poors are prepared to accept tho following conditions ...... They will not mako nbsolute Independence Inde-pendence ft cardinal fe iture If they cun como to a satisfactory agreement as to future International government. Tho banishment and confiscation of propertv proclamation must bo canceled can-celed nnd confiscated property must lie lestored to Ito owners, with remuneration re-muneration for private stock and property prop-erty destiojed or taken b the lirltleh. Pull recognition nf state debts contracted con-tracted before and after hostilities and up to tho date of tho annexation proclamation published by Lord Roberts Rob-erts The language question Is to bo mutually mu-tually ogieed upon Amnesty for tho Cape rebels Tho release of all political politi-cal prisouetr A date to bo fixed when all prisoners of war will be returned to bouth Africa The offers of one or two friendly powers to bo accepted to superintend su-perintend tho carrjlns out of tho terms of peice. Of these tho cardinal point nnd tho hardest for Great Urltaln to concede Is the granting of amnesty to tho Cape rebels, not so much because of British opposition but owing to colonial opposition oppo-sition In South Africa. Itself. may nn MODiriED. Whllo there Is no reason to bellevo that this la not ft seml-ofllclal summitry sum-mitry of tho Doers' demand, there Is also reason to thl Ik that they ma) bo modified How strong tho Government shares that hope may be Judged fiom the fact that tho London police olll-clals olll-clals today weio ordered to keep largo forees In order to avoid any lepetltlon of "Mofeklng night" which It Is feared might ensuo should tho conclusion of reace be nnnnuneed One of the curious feature of the present pres-ent negotiations Is that llvo of tho Hoer representatives secured ft legal training at the English bai. Tho repeated rumors of Joseph Chamberlain's Cham-berlain's resignation of the ofllco of Colonlil becretnry, which were received lifter the publication of Ills signed denial, de-nial, ma) bo utterly disregarded, They rise out of scilous dlffeienccs existing between himself nnd thn Chancellor of the Exchequer over the West Indies and other colonial matters requiring tieas-ury tieas-ury co-operation, which have frequently been mentioned In these dlspatehes nnd which appear to bo moro acute than they havo been for montliB ANOTHER CABINET MEETING. It was nscertalned Into tonight that nnother Cabinet meeting had been arranged ar-ranged for tomorrow afternoon. |
