Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-21
RIOTING IN ENGLAND.

LONDON, May q. $40 a. m.-Dis-
played in the most conspicuous style
in the Daily Express is the dominant
war news of the morning:
w have the bes1 reason Tor
stating that in the last twenty-four
hours a telegram has been received
mt the Aoreign office addressed per-
sonally to the Prime Minister from
President Kruger, proposing terms
of peace.
"The exact terms or the message
cannot be stated, but we believe it
is couched in an exceedingly humbI
strain.
at is inconceivabIe, of course,
that Lord Salisbury can have sent
any reply except the one that stands
ready ON the lip of every B~riton-un-
conditional surrender.
The boisterous rejoicings over the
news from Mafeking have become
riots in parts of London. Aberdeen
and Belfast and elsewhere in the Unit
ed Kingdom.
In the Finchley district Of suburban
London a mob stoned the railway sta
tqon masters house and smashed the
windows Of a Diapers shop, setting
the building on fire also, although
whether by accident or design, it is
net yet known. Two clerks were in
iured. The house of a Boer sympa-
shizer at Harlesden was attacked by a
large crowd and the windows were
Shattered. The police charged the
mob and were greeted with a shower
of decayed eggs. Numerous arrests
were made and the police reserves
were called out.
Ricting took place in Aberdeen from
to 10 O'Clock Saturday evening
around a hall where a stop the war"
meeting was being addressed by Mr..
Cronwright Schrelner, husband OF
Olive Sehreiner. A crowd Of students
and others tried to storm the hall and
TO break down the doors. The foot
police were unable to cope with the
disturbers and sent for the mounted
police. who made some Roadway with
the crowd, but free fights occurred be-
tween the supporters of the meeting
and the crowd and the royal mfr
mary nearby was kept busy dressing
the wounds of combatanls, caused by
stones. bricks and clubs. A number of
arrests were made, and finally the
chief magistrate ordered the chief con-
stable to call out the military. The
Gordon Highlanders from the Castle
barracks then cleared the streets.
Special papers of thanksgiving were
read yesterday in the churches of the
United Kingdom. The Lord Bishop of
London. DIR. Mandell Creighton, who
preached before the Queen at Windsor.
alluded to the relief of Mafeking, and
clergymen generally found in the
event their topic for the day.
Details Of the relief are still wanting.
the British military authorities being
without dispatches. Lord Roberts wires
that he knows of the relief only
through press agency. Lord Lansdowne,
however, announces that the war Of
fee expects direct news to-day.
The situation in the field has chang
ed but little since Friday. Lord Rob-
erts' troops are in fine form and abun-
dainty supplied. Indications seem to
point TO an early movement. His caval-
ry. riding over several hundred square
miles in q semi-circle beyond Kroon-
stad, have received the submission OF
hundreds Of Free Staters.
It now appears that the DeWet who
offered to surrender with 1000 men.
was not the well-known General De-
Wet, but commandant DeWet. He
stipulated that his men should be al
lowed to return to their farms. Lord
Roberts replied that the surrender
must be unconditional.
The Botha, who was captured the
other day. was Philip Botha. Those