| Show NO WAR OCTOBER PROSPECTS OF PEACE IN THE TRANSVAAL new york sept 15 A dispatch to the new york tribune from london says A cold fit has followed the hot fit over the war with the transvaal the acceptance by president kruger of the proposals ot peace mada with dignity and tact in the chamberlain dispatch la regarded as highly probable the doers are simply required to carry out their own offer of august 19 with the suzerainty question left out and permission to use english in the raad added both the commission of inquiry and the capetown conference ought easily to be arranged elace the boere have already accepted one and apparently want the other an interval of pacific diplomacy may be confidently expected until there Is a sudden change of temper in pretoria the best informed observers assert that the real crisis will come when guarantees for permanent peace arc discussed in the conference tho natural inference Is that the british representatives will demand the reduction ot the defensive works at johannesburg or at pretoria ance these menace englishmen only and are not ansa ed tor external defense from any for eign power reduction or abandonment of these fortifications will probably be proposed as a reasonable guarantee of peace which will be satisfactory to the imperial government the boers will consider it an unreasonable demand remembering Jamo sons raid and the real crisis in the relations between the transvaal and england will follow the safest judgment which can be formed la that barring accidents or an impetuous boer rush upon laluga neck a conference will be arranged and that there will be no war until the end of october t at all everything indicates that the british government has determined to operate on a large ecale if it Is compelled to declare war and it will not take any chances the appointment of sir geo white IB a clear indication that the government will be prepared tor an emergency which may require a force of forty thousand men the of the former commander in chief in india cannot be explained on any other ground and be will be at the base of the operations certainly there ara not british troops enough in africa at the present moment for operations on the large scale which the transvaal government has in mind it it la forced to settle the question by war talc is another cogent ground for the opinion that there will be no war until the end of october accidents being excluded president Kruger fl promised acceptance of tue chamberlain proposals based on his own offers would bo followed by an earnest conciliatory cili atory effort to settle the questions at issue peacefully but military operations will not be relaxed especially as there ia likely to oe a final briels over the reduction of the forta as a reasonable guarantee ot permanent peace the are evidently bent upon having a final settlement which will put an end to all controversies and promote the harmon loua developments of the resources of south africa and they will conduct the negotiations in a conciliatory spirit but with a well organized army in the back ready for on a large scale |
