Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1901 — REJECTED BY BOTHA. [ARTICLE]

REJECTED BY BOTHA.

Peace Terms Offered Do Not Please Boer Leader. —.tnsepti t^franibcrlaih. the--British Colonial Secretary, informed the House of Commons Tuesday that Gen. Botha lias rejected the peace terms offered him. Gen. Botha, Mr. Chamberlain said, had conveyed the information in a letter to Gen. Kitchener, in which he announced that he was not disposed to recommend the terms of pence Gen. Kitchener was instructed to offer him, to the earnest consideration of his government. Gen. Botha added that his government and its chief officers entirely agreed with his view. The responsibility for the continuance of guerilla warfare to the bitter end consequently restswith Gen. Botha, mid those whom he was consulting. This yvas the impression which Mr. Chamberlain clearly conveyed. The ministerialists accepted Gen. Botha’s answer philosophically as a proof that the war must go on until the Boer leaders were captured, says a London correspondent, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer might as well pigeon-hole his more favorable budget and warn taxpayers to prepare for the worst, the sugar duty as well as the increased income tax. The pro-Boer Liberals, who are looking for strange revelations from Holland, are predicting that Gen. Botha will have a version of the negotiations quite different from the one authorized by the foreign office.