The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-03-02

From early afternoon all business in
the city was at an end. Many stores
closed altogether; others were deserted
by their employees, who poured into
packed streets, where wheeled traffic
had become impracticable, while hat
less, and in many case cOatless, they
paraded, shrieking their delight over
Buffers belated success.
AS night came on the throngs grew
denser, the demonstration became wild
er, more unrestrained, and finally de-
generated into wild orgy. Saloons did
roaring trade everywhere. Bands of
men and women took possession of ON
nibuses. which could only proceed at a
walking pace, with frequent stops,
maintaining indescribable clamor, wav-
ing union jacks, indulging in all manner
of horse play, which, with clangor of
countless church bellS,created inceSSant
din. The usually stolid cockney had for
once gone stark staring mad.
All thought of the terrible toll of dead
and MANNED of the bravest of their sol
diers which had been paid for this VIC
tory was forgotten. It was, on the
whole, a painful exhibition of jubila-
tion, telling a significant tale of abnor-
NAL dependency and terror from
which it was the unhealthy reaction.
In the house of commons, when Bal
four read Buffers dispatch stating he
had been to Ladysmith and briefly de-
scribing the poignant horrors of the be-
sieged, there was some cheering but no
immoderate transports. Earlier, Viii
liam Redmond had Indignantly protest
| ed against imprisOning Cronje on
| flagship at Cape Town, crying:
You send your gallant captive to
| your hulkS."
STREAM OF REINFORCEMENT.
London, March 2.-In the house of
| lords, secretary of state for war, the
! Marquis of LansdoWne replying to con-
/ gratulations and a question prefaced
his announcement of the relief of Lady
! smith by saying the news had at least
\ removed the fear of an impending cal
! amity. He added that he did not know
/ whether most admiration should be Civ
en- to Gen. White and the gallant de-
| tenders of Ladysmith or to the brave
| men under Gen. Butler, or to Lord Rob-
| erts, to whose vigorous and successful
| offensive movement was due the pres
/ sure by which Natal was relieved.
Continuing, Lord Dansdowne said:
Two recent successes will not be
! made the pretext for a relaxation of our
| efforts, which will not be relaxed. In the
/ week ending March 3. eight ships will
/ leave England, carrying 100 men, dur
1 ing the week ending March 10, Is ships
| carrying 800 men will leave for South
! Africa; during the week ending March
! 49, eleven ships, with $500 men will sail
| and during the week ending March 2l,
| nine ships, with $500 men are to sail.
| Finally during the week ending May 81,
! six ships, carrying $500 men will sail,
/ tOtalling about 3S 800 men and during
| the following month about II 800 men
/ will be ready for whom ships have not
! yet been allotted
THE stream of reinforcements will
! not run dry"
MORE MEN FOR ROBERTS.
London, March 2.-Britons feel that
they are living in the presence of mo-
mentOus events. Tornadoes of patri-
otic excitement are whirling through
the country. Even the dullest soul
must have been stirred by the emotions
/ of yesterday and London's 5000, 900
were raised to high pitch of patri
! otic exultation.
! 1t was a wonderful sight. Old men
/ have nothing in memory with which
4 to compare the day. Some likened it
/ to Lucknow others talked of the fall
/ of SebastOpOl 1t was a time of sin
/ gular abandon. The usual conventions
! of society ceased to control, and every
/ one knew everybody else, all joining in
smiles or bellowings as their DISPOSE
! tiOns moved them.
Lord LandsdOwne chose the psycholog-
/ icaI moment to announce estimates ex-
1 ceeding 61.000,000 pounds and rather
startled the public by unfolding the
/ programme of the war office to send
out, in addition to the 60, 900 troops now
4 afioat $4,000 fresh soldiers. Lord Rob
erts will ultimately have a force of a
j quarter of a million.
An order has reached Woolwich for
/ the construction of 224 new guns, from
/ three Founders to 12-inch guns. OF
I these 140 are to be naval guns. Al
/ ready 25000 wOrkmen are employed at
/ the arsenal, and 5000 more will be en-
/ gagged. These decisions to send out
more troops and to increase the home
armament meet with universal ap-
proval. The Beers seem to have gotten
/ away from around Ladysmith without
losing gun or their baggage. Van
/ Reenan's Pass is only about twenty
/ miles from Ladysmith. The enemy had
! artillery in action Tuesday, and they
! probably utilized both railways in re-
| treat ting, sending the heavy pieces to
/ Pretoria and the lighter ones onto the
/ Free State.
Dr. Leyds says that Gen Joubert is
/ assembling 1000 men at Weinberg, 70
miles west of BlOemfontein. Col AL
/ brecht, according to a dispatch from
+ Paardeburg, afffrms that the Beers have
! $4,000 men left
/ fontein now or not, he doubtless soon
/ will be dating his dispatches there and
using the town as his advanced base.
! Lord Kitchener'S mission is to COM
/ bine the forces under Gen. Clement and
! Gen. Gatacre and to advance along the
! line of the railway to BlOemfontein
/ The railway will simplify immensely
/ the perpleXities of transport
| The conditions at Ladysmith, some of
/ which We're explained by Charles Will
! liams and cabled to the United States
! are now better understood, as the mil
i itary authorities no longer retain their
special information. 1t appears that
since the middle of January the horses
/ have been half starved and altogether
/ too weak either to drag guns or to carry
cavalrymen. Hence the impossibility
/ of dashing out.
CRONJE'S PROGRESS.
Cape Town, March 2.-Gen. Cronje
and his party arrived at Simonstown
/ today.
Gen. Cronje was received by Gen. Sir
( Frederick Forester Walker and a rep
! reSentative of Sir Alfred Miner, the
governor of Cape Colony.
SUFFERING IN LADYSMITH
London. March 2-CoI Rhodes, the
brother of Cecil Rhodes, describing in
] the Times the entry into Ladysmith of
/ Lord Dundonald and 300 men of the
Imperial Light Horse and Natal Car
| bineers, Feb. %, says: