Lancaster enterprise. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1891-1905, 1900-05-23
BEGINNING OF THE END.
MAFEKING RELIEVED AND
COMMANDANT BOTHA
CAPTURED.
LOndOn's Millions Wild With
Delight Over the Suppression
of Home Rule.


the street, and even at this
morning troops OF young men are
promenading, singing and cheer
ing, and there are crowds In front
of the Mansion House, Mar bor-
ough House, the clubs aud Pal
Mall, and the war Office and in
Parliament square, waving flags
and joining in the national airs.
This sustained believing and
uproar of hundreds of thousands
amazes the Euglishmen who
ceases for a moment to be an ac-
tor and becomes merely an OBJ
server.
Nothing has quite equalled to.
nights hundred pquare miles Of
almost furious demonstration
Smart women IN broughams
waved union jacks out of the
windows. From every bus in
London fluttered a union jack.
Conventional family parti es
stopped at street corners to take
part in singing God Save the
Queen" and Soldiers of the
Queen" Everywhere was good
feeling and an astonishing roar
of human voice
1t was all brought about by a
20-word telegram from Pretoria
that Mafeking had been relieved.
Col. Baden .Powelps brother,
in London, has received a tele-
gram from a Dutch friend in
Pretoria. saying that Mafeking
has been relieved.
EMINENTLY APPROPRIATE.
At Carlton Hotel, which is fill
ed with America rs. the bands
played Marching Through Geor
gia," which has been recently
adapted to an English song, entl.
tied Marching to Pretoria" :"
"Dixie" and other American airs
were played.
Ten thousand people stood in
front of Mrs. Baden Powell's
honse, in st. Georges place,
cheering and singing.
TO COL. BADEN POWELL.
The lord mayor sent the fol.
lowing to Col. Bdden-Powell:
1.-The citizens Of London are
relieved. They rejoice in the good
news received. Your gallant de-
fence will long live in the annals.
Cable me what money ls wanted
for the needs of the garrison and
inhabitants after long priva-
tions."
In unrestrained jubilation the
provinces were hot behind the
metropolis. From all parts. of the
Empire comes the same story.
Bonn boy, Hong Kong, Colombo
and the Australian cities are re
jolcing. Continental cities, as the
press kilograms abundantly testi-
fy, received the news sadly.
A LourenZo Marques corres-
pondent, telegraphing yesterday,
says:
New peace proposals will
probably be put forward by the
Boer Government. The recent
reverses are causing desponden
cy. There was prolonged meet
ing Of the Transvaal executive at
Pretoria Thursday, and the de
struCtion of the mines %as again
considered. 1t is understood That
the Government does not intend
to destroy the mines"
According TO the other adviGes
from the same point President
Kruger and the other high off q.
cials purpose leaving almost i'm
mediately for Lydenburg.
The British prisoners will be
conveyed there and the foreign
consuls at Pretoria and leaving
for Lydenburg.
"IT is SAID"
In Kroonstad it is said that
President Kruger will surrender
when Lord Roberts crosses the
Transvaal frontier.
Lord Roberts is accumulating
immense quantities of supplies
and the preparations for another
movement are we'll advanced.
The next stop will he at Johan-
nesburg. There are 10000 Beers
at Rhenoster Spruit. Reconnoi-
tering parties are sighted daily
by the British patrols.
The Beers have dynamlted
Laing's Mex tunnel and the rail