The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1900-05-19
LONDON
Goes Wild With Joy Over the
Reli f of Maf king.

LONDON, MAY 19-4 A. M.-London''s
millions spent half the night in the street
and even al o'clock this morning troops
of young men are promenading, singing
and cheering, and there are crowds in
front of the Mansion house, Marlborough
house the clubs on Pail Mall and the
war office and in Parliament square,
waving flags and joining in the national
airs.
JOHN BULLS BELOW.
This sustained believing and uproar of
hundreds of thousands amazes the Eng
lishman who ceases for a moment to oe
an actor and becomes merely an observ-
er. Sober, phlegmauc London is beside
itself with emotion. Gusts of patriotism
have set the town quivering twice or
thrice during the war, but nothing has
quite equaled tonigth"s hundred square
miles of almost furious demonstrations.
1t was a curious thing for the onlooker
to see solemn, gray haired men toss their
opera hats into the air and join IN the
hurricane of cheers when a wreath
crowned banner, with the portrait Of Col.
Baden-Powell on it, was borne along Pic
adilly Smart women in broughams
waved union jacks out of the windows.
Convention family parties stopped at
street corners to take part in singing
God save the queen" and Soldiers of
the queen" Everywhere were abandon.
good feeling an astonishing roar of hu-
man voices.
PRIVATE TELEGRAM.
It was all brought about by a 2Oword
telegram from Pretoria that Mafeking
had been relieved. Although the govern
ment has not a word and although moth
ing confrmatory has been received from
any African source except Pretoria, no
body questions the news. Mr.. Arthur j.
Balfour, government leader in the House
of Commons, speaking from the govern
ment bench late last evening, said:
"The only news 1 have is through the
courtesy of the press. We have no in
formation at the war office. Nor would
we have it as soon as il would arrive
through other channels. Therefore tne
fact that we have not received it neither
confirms or disproves the accuracy of the
information. 1 need hardly say that we
all trust an dhave good reason to believe
it is probably true. (Cheers)
NOT VERIFIED.
Mr.. George Wyndham, parliamentary
under secretary of war, replying to sew
eral members of the house who had pri-
vately interrogated linn, said:
although the government has nothing,
I am dispooed to believe the Boer bulle-
tin. 1t may be tomorrow and perhaps
even Monday before the government will
get dispatches from our military COM
manders, even if the seige were raised
some days ago. as the news would need
to be conveyed over a long distance by
messengers on horseback, whereas the
enemy would probably be able to avail
themselves of telegraphic communica-
ton"
Col. Baden Powell's brother in London
ha sreceived a telegram from a Dutch
friend in Pretoria saying that Mafeklng
has been relieved
GENERAL HUBBUB.
The performers in London music halls
and theatres last evening had hltle use
for stage business or for the lines in their
pieces The audiences which crowded the
AIhambra, the Empire, Covent Garden,
or the theatres, had no desire to attend
to stage performances. The first sight
of a biograph scene in the Transvaal, or
the first glimpse Of a military or naval
costume on the stage, was sufficient to