NEWFOUNDLAND'S AID.
Received January 31, 9.28 a.m.
London, January 30. The Daily Mail is the only paper claiming to know that Dr Van' Kuyper asked for safe conduct for a Dutch commission to assure fighters that European intervention was hopeless and the struggle futile. Dr Van Kuyper represented the despairing negative attitude of the delegates, who justify their obstinacy by citing the fighters still in the field.
Reuter says that Dr Van Kuyper made merely a tentative suggestion to facilitate the conclusion of the war. The general feeling in London, however, is that nothing can be achieved until the Boer belligerents intimate a desire to negotiate for peace. The Times, Standard, and Telegraph denounce the News for intriguing with the enemy, which is perilously near a legal offence.
At the Imperial Government's instance, Newfoundland is renewing the modus vivendi in connection with the French fisheries dispute as a contribution towards aiding the Empire in time of war.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7376, 31 January 1902, Page 2
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157NEWFOUNDLAND'S AID. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7376, 31 January 1902, Page 2
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