The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 4, 1900, Page 13

.0#00‘7900”09””000 ‘e Pages 13 to 22 *t+e TEL 4242444442994 44404 444445 . * + * * FEEFFETFIPIPFPPILPIITIFIITI 4+ - Pages 1310 22 SEELTLLLLLLILIIPIPIIIL b L d +* * + +e e > - - + * * VOLUME LXXXVII—NO. 94, SAN FRANCISCO, SUNDAY, MARCH 4, "1900—THIRTY-TWO PAGES. PRICE FIVE CENTS. AMERICA READY TO INTERVENE IN THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA President McKinley Willing to End the Strife if Requests for Media- tion Come From Both Great Britain and the Boer Republics. Emperor W ( dent is willing to mediate whenever they desire him to do so. to go. it would place him in a position to meet with a rebuff. = \ On the occupation of Pi between General B: eaving, which agte toward t Orange ¥ rs Hill on February 28 by the British the Boer dysmith began to make their prepara- masterly manner. Some went north by . and others west by Van Reenans Pass [ ] - % i - g b 4 1' Boers Are Not Dlscouraged by British Successes and Are|: Expected to Resist Most Stubbornly Further Inva- sion of the Free State. ONDON, March 4—After|seem to be doing what each of a week of the greatest ex-|their commanders is pleased to t—such excitement |deem best and therefore the has never been ex-| Boers are acting without any co- ced since the Crimea—we| hesion. »w experiencing a tempo-| The latest reports show that but surely the lull which | Joubert’s retreat has been exe- another storm. | cuted with greater skill and for- Up to the present no startling | tune than that of Cronje. It is s come over the wires for | unlikely that we shall now hear twenty-four hours at| of the Boer§ being caught in any . but it is evident that Lord | positions on Natal soil where the ts is not going to leave his| British could inflict any punish- v time for rest. ment on them. even appear that the | With that dogged stubborn- themselves are not dis-|ness which he has already shown i by Roberts’ success, —sorely to British cost—General their having been com-?]oubert seems bent on offering a to raise the siege of Lady- | determined resistance to Lord | h, but are still eager for bat- | Roberts’ advance, but in the bat- hough their movements are‘ tle which is imminent, with the not very well understood here. |force at the disposal of the Brit- Each body or force would!ish and with the adoption of the e LGOS0 RORILIIAR DO LIBALIOSHOLINLEN 83 ALL HEADObARTERS, WELLiNGTON HOTEL, WASHINGTON March 3—Whl!e the United States has not | formally tendered its good offices to Great Britain and the South African republic looking to pacifically set- tling the war raging between them, the idea has been conveyed to the two governments that the Presi- 0 go. An administration official said to-day that if the President were to suggest to Great Britain the ad- i visability of permitting the use of the good offices of the United States with a view to ending the war | As the scene of hostilities is thousands of miles away, and as American interests are not involved in the struggle, the President sees no reason for placing the Government in an awkward position by offering | BULLER ON PIETEKS HILL WATCHING BOERS RETREAT @ Britain desires mediation to end the war. Beyond this the President does not propose BOER WOMEN FIGHT AND DIE IN THE TRENCHES. Many women have been with the Boer forces on the Tugela, and not only as coqks and nurses, but for fighting as well. Most of them are expert sharpshooters and many a British officer has fallen before their well-aimed rifles. In the last fighting below Ladysmith the British soldiers on gaining the Boer trenches found there two women, one dead and the other mortally wounded. She had stayed with her husband to the last. He had insisted on her remaining be- cause she was such an excellent shot and did sugh splendid execution in picking off the English. 1111am of Germany Anxmus to Aet as a Peaeem to mediate when the lender may be re;ected The State Department has no reason to believe that Great The South African republic, while it has not directly invited the President to mediate, has indicated its willingness that he should do so. ever, conveys a similar intimation to the United States no action, in the view of the authorities, can be taken. PARIS, March 3.—The Courier du Soir, which is usually regarded as an inspired organ touching polit- ical matters, states that there is reason to believe Emperor William is disposed to offer his services in favor of mediation in the Transvaal difficulty knowing that he is no longer isolated, and all the powers recognize him as the most fitting sovereign to act the part of peacemaker. tory of Lord Roberts is believed to have been intended to pave the way for such a step. !8:&0!30‘2 O!‘O'AO !eO'-C‘)%O!ZO‘aOSSQSSOSiCfiQfififimm@mm OHORORORORORORG BOKOR C&G&‘Q}?DRO. : POPE LEO SYMPATHIZES WITH BRITISH SOLDIERS ROME, March 3.—An influential memorial from the British Catholics to the Pope, promoted by the Duke of Norfolk, in which the signatories protest against the rampant Anglophobism of the clerical press of Italy, has caused real concern at the Vatican, and by order of his Hollness a thorough investigation has been instituted. An official letter sent in reply to the Duke by Cardinal Rampolla is not altogether satisfactory to the memorialists, but they will be soothed by a let- ter, written in the Pope's own hand, to Cardinal Vaughan. The holy father declares those who attributed to him pro- Boer sympathies in the lamentable fratricidal struggle now proceeding in South Africa cruelly wrong him personally and the church of which he is the divinely appointed guardian. He is well aware that the British army contains many thou- sands of Catholic soldiers who, from the beginning of the war, have distinguished themselves by heroiem, and his heart has bled for them in thelr sufferings. He loves-England too well not to wish her a happy issue out of the present trials and knows, moreover, that it is in the interests of the church that British arms should prevail. It is impossible for him to approve the war, but how could it be supposed he desires the triumph of the Boers? As for the Osservatore Romano, the so-called organ of the Vatican, the Pope reminds the Cardinal that the paper has never published an official note referring to the war. If it published articles commenting on the war it was only just to point out that they were in no way inspired by the Vatican. - Furthermore, the articles complained of never expressed a desire for a Boer triumph. Before writing the letter the Pope had all the articles read to him and also caused to be overhauled the récords of the Vatican press department. There is reason to believe the Pope contemplates making a public declaration of the at- titude of the Holy See toward the war.' It will probably take the form of an authorized statement in the Osservatore Ro- mano. It is noteworthy, by the way, that the Vatican organs recently ceased all reference to the war. erva- tore, with touching self-denial, has not made one appeal recently to the powers of Burope to intervene, nor nu it published a word abont the reliet of Kimberley and Ladysmith or the surrender of Cronje: % I too soon. With ammunition and stores at the lowest ebb, with troops worn - and exhausted by disease and from want of nourish- ing food, had the Boers made an- other attempt to storm the gar- rison in half as determined a manner as that at the beginning of January there is little question that the fall of Ladysmith would have resulted. Fortunately for White’s force Joubert did not same tactics that Lord: Roberts has ‘already displayed, the result is awaited here with equanimity. It is dispersal, not concentra- tion, of the Boer forces which is being most talked about at the service clubs as being most likely to give trouble to the British ad- vance. Reports which are coming through from Ladysmith show that relief was effected not a day ful distance. lost, parents. Steyn in the Free State. know that and kept at a respect- One of the most pathetic incidents of the Boers’ hurried flight is that many chil- dren were found'in the trenches if ‘not -forgotten, by their : % | A good deal of significance is attached to the visit President Kruger is paying to President It is even surmised that the meeting | aker B e e % Until the British Government, how- His telegram to the Queen after the vie- i BOER SCOUTS WATCHING BULLER'S MOVEMENTS. @ On their retreat from Ladysmith a large force of the Boers took the road i for Harrismith, leading through Van Reenans Pass, by which it is thought General Buller will try the passage of the Drakensberg Mountains and where he will doubtless meet stout resistance. Their scouts keep & ciose eys on :F every movement of the British forces.* I Q Q % @ g Alleged Announcement of the Transvaal Agency at Brus- sels That the Siege of Mafe- king Has Been Raised Is De- nied by Dr. Leyds. Special Cable to The Call and New Y ork Herald. Copyrighted, 1900, by the New York Herald Company. ONDON, March 4.—A dispatch from Berlin says that the Trans- vaal agency at Brussels has announded that the siege of Mafe- king has been raised. Dr. Leyds authorizes an nbmlnta denial of the report that he had received news that m!eking had been relieved. forces. The raising of the siege of Lady- smith was, of course, a vital matter for the British army. It is the result of Gen- eral Buller's contintous fighting, coupled with Lord Roberts’ invasion of the Free State. ““General Buller seems to have been sur- prised to find that he had beaten the Boers on Tuesday. Nothing is commoner in war than fcr an army, after hard fight- ing, to be doubtful of the extent of its success. Few genera rn, as Grant did in his first command, ‘thit the enemy was as much frightened of me as I was of him.” “The question now i course of events. T cannot be much doubt as to the i vided no for- eign power or powers Interfere. “Lord Roberts can elther order General Buller, with che 40,000 of the new united national army, to advance on Pretoria, while he himself moves by Bloemfontein may have refercncc to overtures for peace. Nothing, however, is known with certainty as to the intention of the two presidents. PROBABLE MOVES OF OPPOSING FORCES | 4.—Spencer Wilkin- LONDON, March son, reviewing the situation in South Africa for the Associated Press, at mid- night says: “The victories of Tuesday have put the campaign straight, from the British point of view. The important matters were the defeat of Cronje and the destruction of a part of his force, and the defeat of the Boer army In Natal, both of which were effected on Tuesday. The relief of the besieged town followed as a matter of course upon the retreat of the besieging as to the future Continued on Page Twenty-twe.