Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-05-19

States.
At Carlton hotel, which is filled with
Americans, the bands played March
ing Through Georgia. which has been
recently adapted to an English 0
entitled Marching to Pretoria" Dix
ie'' and other American airs were
played.
Ten thousand people stood in front
| of Mrs. Baden-PowelIs house in St.
Georges Place, cheering and singing,
and a score of cabs brought congrat-
ulations.
Miss Baden Powell,
the ~colonel's sister, said:
"The same tale has been brought
us many times during the last anx-
ious months. The war office has prom
Used us the earliest information. We
only hope it is true"
AS soon as information of the relief
was received the Lord Mayor, Mr.. A.
j. Newton, sent the following dispatch
to Gen. Baden-Powell:
THE citizens of London are relieved.
They rejoice in the good news received.
Your gallant defense will long live in
British annals. Cable me what money
is wanted for the needs of the garrison
and inhabitants after long privations.".
In unrestrained j~ubilation the prov
inces were not behind the metropolis.
Although London had the start by a
few minutes, the great industries and
surrounding towns suddenly burst
into patriotic demonstrations. Bells
clashed in their steeples; village bands
turned out and people gathered in the
squares to chant fervidly God Save the
Queen"
From all parts of the empire
the same story. Bombay, Hong Kong,
Colombo and the Australian cities are
rejoicing. Continental cities, as the
press kilograms abundantly testify, re-
ceived the news sadly.
Under the head of How the news
was received" the Daily Chronicle
says:
The telegram to the Associated
Press from Pretoria-the historic dis
patch announcing the relief of MAIZE
king-was sent from the capital of the
Transvaal at 1885 a. M, May IS. 1t
reached the London Office at 9:17 p.
M, and was instantly dispatched TO
every quarter of the globe. BY 1873
p. m. had come a response from far
off Toronto describing the reception
of the news there.
This is not surprising in view Of
the fact that, four minutes after the
receipt of the telegram here, it was
in the Associated Press Office in New
York, where it was forwarded to the
farthest limits Of the North American
continent"
Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain
called at the war Office after mid
night and received a tremendous IVA
ton.
The relief Of Mafeking has had the
effect of ~suspending for a moment in
terest in the operations elsewhere in
the field of war. Nevertheless yester-
day brought important official an
nouncements. Lord Methuen entered
Hoopstad Thursday. He is now sew
enty miles from Kroonstad and fifty
from Bothaville.
General Butler entered New Castle
Thursday evening. Lord Roberts is not
idle. While waiting for stores at Kroon-
stad he is using his mounted men to
search a wide tract of country. Col
Broadwood occupied Lindley on Thursday
and the same day Gen. Hutton captured
one of the Bothas thirty miles from
Kroonstad. Gen. Rumble. on Thursday,
encamped at Clocolan. British successes
are thus reported at every point from
which news came yesterday.
According 10 advices from Lourenzo
Marques. President Kruger and the other
high officials, purpose leaving almost i'm
mediately for Lydenburg.
In Kroonstad it is said that President
Kruger will surrender when Lord Rob
erts crosses the Transvaal frontier.
Lord Roberts is accommodating immense
quantities Of supplies ard the prepare
tons for another movement are we.. as-
vanced. The next stop viii be Johannes
burg.
That not only Mafekfng. but the whole
United Kingdom is relieved, is demon
strated by the u-tterances of the morning
papers.