The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-21
RIOTS SUCCEED HILlRTTY
AIOBS OFFER VIOLENCE TO PROP
PERTY OF ANY KNOWN BOER
SYMPATEIZERS
BULLER BEFORE LAING's MEX
No Official News Received by Rob-
erts of the Relief of Mafeking
-Baden-POweIPs Re-
ward.

GO-NOO4N, may Il, 4.10 a. n.-DlSpIayed
in the most conspicuous style in the
Daily Express is the dominant war news
of the morning:
I'VE have the best authority for stat
ing that in the last twenty-four hours a
telegram has been received at the for
eign office, addressed personally to the
prime minister from President Kruger,
proposing terms of peace.
The exact terms of the message can
not be stated, but we believe it is
couched in an extremely humble strain''
1t is uncomfortable of course that Lord
Salisbury can have sent any reply, ex-
cept the one that stands ready on the
lips of every Briton-unconditionaI sur
render.
The demonstrative rejoicings over the
news from Mafeking have given place
to riots in London, Aberdeen and Bel
fast and elsewhere in the United King
dom.
In the Finchley district Of suburban
London a mob stoned the railway sta
tion, store house and smashed the win
dows Of a diapers shop, setting the
building on fire also, whether by accident
or design is as yet unknown The house
of Boer sympathizer at Harleston was
attacked by large crowd and the win
dows were 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 Aber-
deen from to 10 o'clock Saturday even
ing around a hall where a
STOP THE WAR"
meeting was being addressed by Mr..
Cronwright-Schreiner, husband of Olive
Schreiner. 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 headway with their charges,
but free fights between the supporters of
the meeting and the crowd continued and
the royal infrmary near by was kept
busy blessing wounds of combatants
caused by stones, projectiles and clubs.
A number of arrests were made and final
ly the chief magistrate ordered the chief
constable to call out the military. The
Gordon Htghlanders from the castle bar
racks then cleared the streets.
Within the hall the opponents of the
promoters Of the meeting broke it up
and carried an amendment to the princi-
pal resolution.
The residence of Hon. Alexander Web
ster, where Mr.. Cronwr:ght-Schreiner
was a guest, was damaged. Boer SYM
pathizers stormed a procession of Ship
yard employees al Belfast and there were
some disorders in Birmingham.
AT Dover the business establishment of
J. b. Brown, a member of the local
Chamber of Commerce, was wrecked by
mob. The police were unable to cope
with the disturbance and the local artil-
lery and volunteers were called out AS
the rioung continued the royal artillery
was called upon to suppress the mob
The windows of buildings adjoining Mr.
Brown s were smashed. Numerous ar
rests were made.
Rev. Lord William Cecil, a son Of the
premier preaching yesterday in Gray's
Inn chapel, London, before the Austria
Ian federation delegates and other no.
tables, referred 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 unthinl1ing crowd. The out
burst is evil in so far as it is the same
spirit which animated the Roman crowds
in the Coliseum, while the gIadiators
fought each other to death, but it is good
IN so far as it is a protest against one
of the greatest evils of the age-the love
of money"
The special prayers of thanksgiving
were offered yesterday in the churches
of the United Kingdom. The lord bishop
of London, DR.. Well Creighton. who
preached before the queen at Windsor,
alluded to the
RELIEF OF MAFEKING.
and clergymen generally found in the
event their topic for the day.
Details of the relief are still wanting.
the British military authorities being
without dispatches. Lord Roberts wires
that he knows of the relief only through
a press agency. Lord Lansdowne how
ever, announces that the war office ex-
poets direct news today.
The situation in the field has changed
but little since Friday. Lord Roberts
troops are in fine form and abundantlv
supplied Indications seem to point to
an early movement. His cavalry, riding
over several hundred square miles in a
semi-circle beyond Kroonstad, have
received the submission of hundreds of
Free Staters.
1t now appears that Dewet who offer
ed to surrender with LOCO men. was not
the well-known Gen. Dewet, but Com
mandant Dewet He stipulated that his
men Snould be allowed tG return to their
farms. Lord Roberts replied that the sur
render must be unconditional
The Botha who was captured the other
day was Philip Botha. Those surrender
ing are solemnly warned that, il they
break the oath of neutrality, their houses
will be burned and their farms confiscat-
ed. Such as yield ask for protection.
Correspondents following Lord Roberts
as he advances tell Of the discouragement
of the Beers and willingness, even of the
Transvaalers, to give up their arms.
STEYN LOSES HIS HEAD.
President steyn is reported to have lost
his head several times recently. The orig
inal of the telegram addressed to the
burghers at Ventersburg, urging them 10
hold out, was really written at Peters.
burg, place which surrendered recently.
President Steyn, who was last reported
as leaving Pretoria, after consultation
with the Transvaal government, has again
gone to the front.
The Daily Telegraph is advised that a
plot has been discovered at Pretoria to de-
pose President Kruger and 10 surrender
the Transyaal during the present month.