Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-05-21
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RIoTING IN GREAT britain.
News From MafekinE Causes Disorder
In Big Cities.

A dispatch from London last night says:
The boisterous rejoicings over the news
from Mafekng have become riots in parts
OF London Aberdeen and Belfast and else
where in the united kingdom. In the
Finchley district of suburban London mob
stoned the railway station masters house
and smashed the windows of a draper S
| stop, setting the building on fire also, al
though whether by accident or design it is
not yet known. Two clerks We're injured.
The house Of Boer sympathizer at Har-
lesden was attacked by large crowd and
the windows We're 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.
Rioting took place in Aberdeen from Z
10 10 o'clock Saturday evening around a
hall, where a stop the war" meeting was
Icing addressed by Mr.. Cronwright-
Schreiner. husband of Olive Schrener. 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 between
the supporters of the meeting and the
| crowd. and the royal infirmary nearby
was kept busy dressing the wounds of
cOmba tants. caused by stones, bricks and
| clubs. A number Of arrests were made,
and finally the chief magistrate ordered
the chief constable to call out the mill
tary. The Gordon Highlanders from the
Castle barracks. then cleared the streets.
Within the hall the opponents of the pro-
| motors Of the meeting practically broke Il
up. and carried an amendment to the
| principal resolution.
The residence of Rev. Alexander Webster,
where Mr.. Cronwright-Schreiner stayed was
| damaged.
Boer sympathizers stoned nrooassto,,
Of shipyard employees at Belfast, and there
was some disorder in Birmingham.
AT Dover the business establishment of
! j. Browne. member of the local chamber
| o. commerce, was wrecked by mob. The
| police We're unable to cope with the dis
| turbance. and the local artillery and volun-
teers were called out. AS the rioting CON
| tinued the royal artillery was called upon
to suppress the mob The windows of build
| nes adjoining Mr.. Brownies were Smashed.
| Numerous arrests were made.
| Rev. Lord William Cecil, son of the
| premier. preaching yesterday in Gray's Inn
GRAFTON delegates and other notabIes. re-
| ferred to these demonstrations of violence.
| and said:
The popular enthusiasm prevailing
| throughout the country Is dangerous. The
| line between good and evil is soon over
| run by the unthinking crowd. The OUT
| burst is evil in so far as 1t is the same
| spirit which animated the Roman crowds
in the Coliseum while the gladiators pur-
\ sued each other to the death, but il is
| good in so far as it is protest against
one of the greatest evils of the age, the
| love of money
Special pray ers of thanksgiving were Of
| fered yesterday in the churches of the
| united kingdom. The lord bishop Of Lon-
| don. DIR. Mandcll Creighton, who preached
| before the queen at Windsor, alluded to the
relief OF Mafeking. and clergymen gener-
| ally found in the event their topic for the
| day.