| Show boers will continue war for four years new york april 8 there is little faith among the boer sympathizers here that peace is imminent in africa baya a new york tribune corrca pendent from the hague licarta are hardened in consequence of the confer ance held here and at utrecht and the boer envoys and refugees are in a louder key than ever that the war will last four years longer and eliat there can bo no peace without independence the credulity odthe burghers in africa is matched by the assumption of their agents here that 1 r deliverance is coming from En glands foreign complications when there is not a cloud in the sky when the three boer commissioners were to america it was assumed eliat a good case would be made out for an investigation of the military conduct of alie war and the shipment of horses and mules from the united states would be prohibited these illusions were dispelled when alie delegates returned but a new fiction has been supplied the boer advocates arc asserting that england ii fatally embarrassed by her alliance with japan and certainly will be drawn into a war of tremendous magnitude in the far east the boer sympathizers are correctly justifying an indefinite continuance of alie guerrilla warfare and forecasting the ultimate triumph of the cause of independence when Britis li troops cannot be spared from alie larger theater of european of I 1 orations the dutch were once the most astuto neutral in tho world they aro now the most aggressive partisans when the radical government was in power the ministers confessed that the future of holland might be imperilled imperil led by the bitter hostility displayed against england some of them were frightened by the fact that utrecht had become a baic of operations against england and that sir krugar had brought to holland what gold remained in the transi vaal treasury and was using it for the purpose of maintaining lio stilo opera eions and promoting foreign intervention they were charged with a lack of j sympathy for the doers when they as seated that the presence of sir kruger kept holland in a state of excitement and that it would be a good thing if lie were to leave the country premier kuypers 8 conservative government has been committed from the outset to a more active support of the boer cause but its bolt was shot when the prime minister vaguely suggested alic expediency of granting the boer agents a bate conduct to south africa |
