Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1900-05-24
MAFEKING RELIEVED
Colonel Mahon With 1900 Men
Did the Work.
THE NEWS SETS ALL LONDON WILD
such an Uproar HAS NOt Been Heard
III London for Many Years Crowds
Get DisoTderly in Celebrating
Latest News from the Front

1.-The rtllet OF MniekluB' pOnoWlnB
close upon this came the news OF
President Kruger's overtures for
peace and London has literally gone
wild over the news, IL was officially
announced from Pretoria Friday that
when the laagers and forts around
Mafeking had been severely lombard
ed, the siege was abandoned. From
the mention of the laagers In the Pre-
TORN dispatch IL is understood here
that prior TO the raising Of the siege
OF Mnfeking the Boer lnagers around
that place were vigorously lombard
ed by the British relief column and
the burghers practically compelled to
abandon the siege, London's mil
lions spent half the night in the
street and even at o'clock in the
morning troops of young men were
promcnadlng, singing and cheering,
and there are crowds In front OF the
Mansion house, Marlborough house,
The clubs on Pail Mall and in Pnrlia-
ment square, waving flags and join
ing In the national airs. This sus-
tanned believing and upronr OF hun
drpds Of thousands amazes the Eng
lshmnn who ceases for moment to
be an actor and becomes merely an
observer Sober, phlegmatic Lon
don Is beside itself with emotion. II
WINS curious thing for the onlooker
to see solemn, grey haired men toss
their opera hats into the air and join
in the hurricane Of cheers when
wrenth-crowned banner, with the
portrait Of Colonel llNden-Powell on
IL, was borne along Piccadilly. Smart
women In broughnms waved union
jacks out of the windows, Conven-
tional family parties stopped NJ street
corners to take part In singing God
Save the Queen" and SOLDIERS OF the
Queen" Everywhere were abandon,
good feeling and astonishing roar of
human voices. II was all brought
about by the twenty word telegram
from Pretoria that Mofeking had been
relieved.
The official confirmation Of the re-
lief Of Mafeking came in the follow
ing despatch from Sir Alfred Miner,
the British high commissioner in
South Africa, to the secretary OF
state for the colonies, Joseph Cham
berl0in;
Barton telegraphs from Taungs
that MOrclling was relieved May II.
The relieving column was compos'
ite force under Colonel Mahon OF
about $500 men,
INt.,,1n,,.1 f., Cha ,,,Not nnnapicunna
style in the Daily Express is the DOM
inent war news of the morning:
eve have the best reason for stat
ing that, in the last twenty-four
hours, n telegram has been received
at the foreign office, addressed per-
sonally to the prime minister, from
President Kruger, proposing terms OF
pence.
"The eXnct terms OF the message
cannot be stntcd but II Is believed to
be couched in an exceedingly humble
strain.
at IL inconceivabe, of course, that
Lord Salisbury can have sent any re-
ply except the one that stands ready
on the lip Of every Briton-uncondi-
tionnl surrender"
President Kruger's request Of Lord
Roberts for n truce, II IL believed,was
intended to bring about q cessation
of hostilities to permit the negotia-
tions with Lord Salisbury TO proceed.
The bosterous reloicings over the
news from Mnfeking have become RI
OTIS in parts of London, Aberdeen and
Belfast and elsewhere in the United
Kingdom.
The house of Boer sympathizer
at Harleston was attacked by large
crowd and the windows shattered.
1hc police charged the mob and were
greeted with shower Of decayed
,egns. Numerous arrests were made
ari the police reserves were called
out.
Rloting took place in Aberdeen from
z TO 10 o'clock Saturday evening
around hall where "stop the war"
meeting was being addressed by Cron.
wright-Schrcincr husband Of Olive
Schreincr.
\ crowd of students and others
tried to storm the hall and 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,
out free fights occurred between the
supporters of the meeting and the
crowd, and the royal infirmary, near
by, was kept busy dressing wounds
OF combatants, caused by stones
bricks and clubs. A number OF ar.
rests were made, and finally the chief
magistrate ordered the chief consta'
rble to call out the militia. The Cor.
don IIighlanders from the Castle bar.
racks then cleared the streets.
The position of the troops has
changed but little. Lord Roberts
troops are in fine condition and
abundantly supplied, Indications seem
to point to an early movement His
cavalry, riding over several hundred
square miles in n semi-circle beyond
Kroonstnd, have received the submis,
sion Of hundreds OF Free Staters.
1t now appears that the De Wet,
who offered to surrender with 1000
men, Is not the General De Wet SO
well known, but Commandant De
Wet.
He stipulated that his men should
be allowed to return to their farms.
Lord Roberts replied that the surren.
der must be unconditional
The Botha who was captured the