Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-19
NIGHT IN STREET

UIUuJ III UIUILJ
LoNDoNERs REJOICE OVER THE
RELIEF OF MAFEKINo.
WAS A SCOOP ON WAR OFFICE.
News Came From Boer Headquarters-
Honor Accorded Colonel
Baden-Powell.
London, May 18.-9:45 .. m.-The dis
patch Of the Associated Press %announc-
ing the relief of Mafeking was posted
outside the Mansion house and h news
rapidly spread. A large crowd assem-
bled, and at this Jour the streetNLe are
~resounding with cheers. The war office
at 8 o'clock announced hat nc news had
been received, and at $40 the lord mayor,
Mr.. A. J. Newton, in his official robes of
office, announced the joyful news to the
crowd outside. The masses of people
outside the Mansion house soon grew to-
such dimensions that the police were
compelled to divert all traffic, omnibdses,
ETC., through the side streets. Hs
The lord a was accompanied by
the lady mayoress to the front of the;
Mansion house, where an immense por-
trait of Colonel Baden-Powel1 was dis
played, bearing the inscription:
"Mafeking relieved"
While the attendants were waving
union jacks the lord mayor briefly ad-
dressed the ~assemblage, saying:
II wish your cheers could reach Mafe-
king"
Here the speech was interrupted by
redoubled efforts and singing of Rule
Britannia after which the lord mayor
remarked:
1--WE never doubted what the end would
be or hat British pluck and courage
would conquer at last"
The lord mayor then led the crowd in
singing God Save the Queen" and
Soldiers of the Queen" and with re-
newed cheering and the waving of flags
by the assembled multitude and the
singing Of For He's a Jolly Good Eel
low" the mayor and his party retired.
The cheering is now i~ncessant.
Special editions of the newspapers APP
peared and the tickers the
news in all the public resorts. In the
West End leading tho~roughfares were
impeded by a constant stream Of the
populace cheering themselves hoarse and
singing God Save the Queen and SOL
diers Of the Queen"
The enthusiasm as this dispatch is
sent already promises to Outrival even
the scenes which followed the relief OF
Ladysmith.
A reporter Of the Associated Press in
quired at the foreign office and the resi-
dent clerks said nothing had yet been
} received there in confirmation of the
: news from Pretoria of the relief of MAIZE
i king.
The dispatch of the Associated Press
containing the news of the relief of the
long-besieged place was sent to the
houses of parliament, where it created
a great deal of excitement in the press
: galleries and Hobbies and soon began to
t circulate among the members of the
= house of m . +F
!, MI. Thomas Chadderwick, advanced
liberal member of the Wyck district
amid considerable excitement, said he
!, understood that news of the relief OF
Mafeking had been received. Was thai
l so? No minister made any reply and
: the debate continued. But the house nc
I longer took any interest in it and the
: members went into the Hobbies to dis
8 cuss the great event. ,n
. London, May 19-4 a. m~.-London's
2 millions spent half the night in the
e streets, and ever at 4 o'cAck this morn
. singing and cheering, and there are
! crowds in front of the Mansion house.
: Marlborough house, the clubs on Pail
. Mall and the war office and in Parliament
= square, waving flags and joining in the
Z national airs. The sustained believing
! and uproar of hundreds of thousands
> amazes the Englishman Who ceases for
the moment to be an actor and becomes
- an observer.
: : Sober, phlegmatic London is beside it.
self with emotion. Gusts of patriotism
= = have set the town quivering twice or
: thrice before during the war, but nothing
has quite equalled to-night's hundred
square miles of almost furious demon
: strations. 1t was a curious thing for
- the onlookers to see solemn gray-haired
q men toss their opera hats INTO the air
/ and join in the hurricane of cheers when
q wreath-crowned banner with the por-
trait of Colonel Baden-Powell on it, was
q borne along Picadilly. Smart women in
~broughams waved union jacks out OF the
e windows. Conventional family parties
stopped on street corners to take part in
3 singing God Save the Queen" and "Sol-
n diers of the Queen Everywhere. were
v good feelings and astonishing roars OF
v human voices.
). II was all brought about by a 2o-word
:, telegram from Pretoria that Mafekins
had been relieved. Although the gov.
p eminent had not a word and although
e nothing confirmatory has been received
from an African source except Pretoria
no one apparently questions the news
\ Mr.. Arthur ]. Balfour, government leade
in the house of commons, speaking from
= the government bench late last evening
said:
. 1.-THE only news I have is through thu
h courtesy of the press. We have no in
formation at the war office. Nor woul
- we have it as soon as it would arriv'
Through other channels. Therefore, tn,
fact that we nave not received it neithe
n confirms nor disproves the accuracy o
the information. I need hardly say tina
~ we all trust and have good reasons t
" hin it is probably true (Cheers.)
y Mrs. Wyndham, parliamentary unde
. secretary of war, replying to seyera
members of the house who had ~privatel