The age-herald., 1900-05-19
RELIEF HAS AT LAST
 REACHED WATERING
The British Relief Column Enters the Suffering City
 and All England RejOices.

Absent Minded Beggar" and Soldiers of the Queen," between acts in order to give vent to their enthusiasm, although they settled down to the programme after wards At the music halls, however no one pretended to be interested in nything not having military color.
 The Prince of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of York and Portuguese minister, Senor Pinto de Several, occupied box at Covent Garden, where "Lohengrin'' was being presented; and when the relief of Mafeking was announced they joined heartily in the applause.
 The London fire insurance laws make fire works impossible, and the city lacked the blaze of illumination characteristic of American cities during similar rejoicings. The British, therefore, relies upon lung power, and from St. Paul's Cathedral to Westminster Abbey and up through Pic cadilly to Hyde Park there was a Niagara like roar, incessant, rising and falling hours after hours, as the surging masses poured through Londons thoroughfares like the people on the eve of presidential election in the United States.
 Americans Celebrated
 At Carlton hotel which Is filled with Americans, the bands played Marching Through Georgia" which has been recent ly adapted to an English song entitled
 hdTCHlilS lO 1TelOTld, blAI6, anu other American airs were played.
 Ten thousand people stood in front of Mrs. Baden-Powells house in St. Georges Place cheering and singing, and a score of cabs brought congratulations.
 The Colonial Sisters said:
 '"The same tale has been brought us many times during the last anxious months The war office has promised us the earliest information. We only hope it is true"
 The boys of the Charter House school, where Baden-Powell was educated, were aroused from sleep by the news, and the institution quickly became veritable pan demonium of noise and enthusiasm.
 As soon as information of relief was received the lord mayor sent the follow ing dispatch to Colonel Baden-Powell
 "The citizens of London are relieved. They rejoice in the good news received. Your gallant defense will long live in Brit ish annals. Cable me what money is want ed for the needs of the garrison and in. habitants after long privations."
 Provinces Not Behind
 In unrestrained jubilations the provinces were not behind the metropolis Although London had the start by few minutes, the great industrial surrounding towns soon burst into patriotic demonstrations.
 From all parts of the empire comes the same story. Bombay, Hong Kong, Co., lomba and the Australian cities are re- joicing Continental cities, as the press tel egrams testify, received the news sadly.
 Under the head of How the News Was Received" the Daily Chronicle says:
 "The telegram to the Associated Press from Pretoria, the historic dispatch, an- nouncing the relief of Mafeking, was sent from the capital of the Transvaal at Il .35 a. m, May IS. It reached the London off, flee at 9:17 D. m., and was instantly dis patched to every quarter of the globe. By 10:30 p. m. had come a response from far off Toronto, describing the reception of the news there.
 "This is not surprising in view of the fact that four minutes after the receipt of the telegram here, 1t was in the Asso- ciated Press office in New York, when it was forwarded to the furthermost limits of the North American continent
 Joseph Chamberlain called at the war office after midnight, and received tre- mendous ovation.
 The relief of Mafeking has had the ef- feet of suspending for a moment interest in the operations elsewhere in the field of war. Nevertheless yesterday brought important official announcements. Lord Methuen entered Hoopestad Thursday. He is now seventy miles from Kroonstad.
 General Butler entered Newcastle Thurs day evening. Lord Roberts is not idle While waiting for stores at Kroonstad he is using his mounted men to search a wide tract of country. Colonel Broadwood occupied Lindley on Thursday, and the same day General Hutton captured one of the Bothas thirty. miles from kroon- stad. General Rundle on Thursday en- camped at Clocolan. British successes are thus reported at every point from which news came yesterday.
 A LourenZo MarqueZ correspondent, tele- graphing yesterday, says:
 'New peace proposals will probably be put forward by the Boer government. The recent reverses are causing despondency There was a prolonged meeting of the Transvaal executive at Pretoria Thursday and the destruction of the mines was again considered. It is understood that the gov ernment does not intend to destroy the mines'
 According to other advices from the same point, President Kruger and the other high CT officials purpose leaving almost imme- diately for Lydenburg. The British prison CTS will be conveyed there and the foreign consuls at Pretoria are leaving for Lyden- berg.
 In Kroonstad it is said that President Kruger will surrender when Lord Roberts crosses the Transvaal frontier Lord Roberts is accommodating immense quantities of supplies and the preparations for another movement are well advanced The next stop will be Johannesburg. There are IF, GOO Boers at Rhenoster Snruit