Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-05-26
MOVE
BY KRUGER
T~ransyaaI President Said to Have
Made 0vertures to Lord
Salisbury.
MUST YIELD UNCOMFORTABLE
Al. am D. N--.1
MUST YIELD UNCOMFORTABLE
No Other Terms viii Be Granted
to the Republics by
Britain.
REJOICING TURNS TO RlOTING
Enthusiasm Over Relief of Mafeking
Responsible for Outbreaks in
Many Towns Through
ont Great Britain.

London, May 22.-Displayed in the
most conspicuous style in the Daliy
Express is the dominant war news OF
the morning:
1--WE nave the best reason for stat
ing that in the last twenty-four hours
a telegram has been received at the
foreign office, addressed possibly to
the prime minister, from President
Kruger, proposing terms OF peace.
The exact terms of the message can
not be stated, but we believe 1T is
couched in an exceedingly humble
strain.
ut is inconceivable, of course, hat
Lord Salisbury can have sent any re-
ply except the one that stands ready
on the lip of every Briton, uncondl-
tional surrender"
The boisterous ~rejoicings over the
news from Mafeking have become
~riotous i'm parts of London, Aberdeen
and Belfast and elsewhere in the
United Kingdom. In the Finchly dis-
trict of suburban London, a mob
stoned the railway stonemaster's
house and smashed the windows of a
Diapers shop, setting the building on
fire, although whether by accident or
design is not yet known. Two clerks
were injured. The house of a Boer
sympathiZer at Harleston was at
tackled by a large crowd, and the win
dows were shattered. The police
charged the mob and were greeted
with a shower of decayed eggs. MI
merous arrests were made and the
police reserves were called out.
Rioting took place at Aberdeen
from Z TO 10 o'clock Saturday evening
around a hall where a stop the war
meeting was being addressed by Mr..
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, husband or
Olive Schreiner. \ crowd OF students
and others tried to storm the hall and
to break down the doors. The loot
police were unable to cope with the
d~isturbers, and sent for the mounted
police, who made some Roadway with
the crowd, but three fights occurred
between the supporters OF the meet
ing and the crowd, and the royal IN
Urinary near by was kept busy dress
ing the wounds of combatants, caused
by stones, bricks and clubs. n num-
Der of arrests were made, and finally
the chief magistrate ordered the CHIEF
constable to call out the military. The
Gordon H~ighlanders from the Castle
barracks then cleared the streets.
Within the hall the opponents OF the
promoters of the meeting practically
broke it up and carried an amend
ment to the principal resolution.
The residence of Rev. Alexander
Webster, where Mr.. Cronwright-
Schreiner stayed, was damaged.
Boer sympathizers stoned a process
sion of shipyard employees at Belfast,
and there were some disorders in Biz
mingham.
AT Dover the business establishment
of j. Brown, a member of the local.
chamber of commerce, was wrecked
bv a mob. The police were unable to
cope with the disturbance, and the To-
cal artillery and volunteers were
called upon to suppress the mob. The
windows of buildings adjoining Mr..
Browns were smashed. Numerous ar
rests were made.
Special prayers of thanksgiving
were offered yesterday in the churches
of the United Kingdom, and clergy
men generally found in the relief OF
Mafeking the topic for the day.
Details of the relief are still want
ing, the British military authorities
being without dispatches. Lord Rob
erts wires that he knows of the relief
only through a press agency. Lord
~Lansdowne, however, announces that
the war office expects definite news to-
day.
The situation in the field has
changed but little since Friday. Lord
Roberts troops are in fine form and
abundantly supplied. Indications
seem to point to an early movement.
His cavalry, riding over several hun
dred square miles i'm n semi-oircle be-
yond Kroonstad, have received the
submission of hundreds of Free Stat
ers.
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 unconditionah
The Botha who was captured the
other day was Philip Botha. Those
surrendering are solemnly warned that
If they break the oath of neutrality
their houses will he burned and their
!, farms confiscated. Such as do yield
, do so only for protection.
Reports flow into Lord Roberts at
/, headquarters of the encouragement
! of the Beers and of their willingness
even in the case of the Transvaalers,
r to give up. President Steyn is de.
scribed as having lost his head several
times recently.