Nelson Daily Miner
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
issued: 2015-12-08
issued: 1900-03-14
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note: Daily Edition No. 675. N ��.on, British Columbia, Wednesday, March 14, 1900. '.��� Tenth Year PEACE The Two Presidents' Fervid Appeal to Lord Salisbury. Her Majesty's Government Declines to Consider It at All. (SPECIAL T��> TH-J MINKII.) New York. March 111.-That the ���yep of the world are turned to the Unitcil States us the only power that will at least make an effort to mediate between Grent Britain and the Booth Africa- Kepobiips is evidenced by the many speoial8 to the morning papers. A correspondent deolnres positively that the lirst Htop has already been taken by President McKinlcy. Ho says upon tbe receipt yeBtenlny of a dis- putoli from Consul Hay concerning the Boer appeal it wns immediately communicated to London, and it it anticipated that the.Riitisb Government, which has been expecting such proposals, Will be able to give an immediate niiHwer. The Administration lias been stnting that it would decline to use it" good offices in the interest of ponce unless asked hy both powers to mediate hut it has changed its attitude to the extent of laying before tbe Brit- ' i��h Government the proposals which United States Consul Hay received from Presidents Kruger nnd Steyn. It is understood that Mr. Hay reports having attended the oonfereuoe wheu Presidents KruRor and Soyn appealed to all nations to use their good offices in the interest nf pence, but it is stated that he received a speoial OOmmnnlpa- linu to tt,��� proposals thnt should be made, the f.ansaval woll understanding thnt the United States, as tbe next bett friend of Englnnd, would be the best channel through which to appeal for peace. It is believed, however, that the Administration did not commit itself, leaving to Great Britain to determine without representation on the part of the President, whether it should accept or reject the proposal nf the Transvaal in the interests of peace. Montague White, in a signed Washington telegram to Tbo World, says: "I bnvc already expressed the desirability of a f…
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Nelson (B.C.)
spatial: Nelson
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0211438
language: English
lat: 49.4933330
long: -117.2958330
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Nelson, B.C. : Nelson Miner Printing & Publishing Co.
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source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. Archives.
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