Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-03-04
BRITAIN GOES WILD
OVER HER VICTORIES.
THE SUCCESS OF LORD ROBERTS
SET HER PULSES BEATING
MORE RAPIDLY, BUT
THE RELIEF OF LADYsMITH
AND THE SUCCESSES OF BULLER
CAUSED THE REMOVAL OF
RESTRAINTS,
And for a day London Saw Such
Scenes as Were Never Before Wit
messed in the Worlds Metropolis.
The Good Things to be Given
Roberts, Kitchener and Butler
Are Already Under Discussion.
Copyright, Associated presso

Copyright, Associated Press)
LONDON, March "a Dukedom for
Roberts, an Earldom for Kitchener and
Peerage for Butler, thus say the
prophets already busy at this occupa-
ton. If only the marvellous wave of
enthusiastic rejoicing that swept over
the country this week could find it's
prototype in material rewards, Lord
Roberts and his fellow heroes of the
hour would all tbe made Dukes forth
with. The change that has come over
the spirit of Great Britain's war dream
can only be appreciated by those who
went through those long four months
of unequalled gloomihess and depres-
sion and what are now freely admitted
to be defeats. The scenesNaccompany
ing this change equalled the, widest
delight that ever gushed through. i'm
questionable France. To a certain ex-
tent they were quite uncharacteristic
of the British race and quite put in
the shade any demonstrations that oc-
CURED in the United States during the
Spanish-American war Yet, it must
be borne in mind that Great Britain
had been sentimentally bottled up so
long that there was bound to be an
outlet.
Kimberley Was Relieved
and scarcely stir was noticeable in
this densely populated United King
dom. Lrod Roberts, by excellent STRAIT
esy, caught General Cronje in a vice
and annihilated him and the nation
said we'll done with several degrees
less fervor than it would have made
the same remark had England beaten
Australia at cricket. The barriers of
British self-restraint and reserve were
not yet broken down. Though hun
dreds of thousands went about their
daily business apparently complacent,
but in their hearts they were dying for
chance to cheer and yell in sheer de-
light, it was still Napoleon's race of
shopkeepers, placid and eminently
proper. Ladysmith was relieved. Then
came the deluge of desire to publicly
exhibit rejoicing which would no long
er be denied. The mad forms it took
have already been described in these
dispatches. The long casualty lists
passed almost unnoticed. Who cared
for the dead except to sing their
praises The intoxication of victory.
coming after months OF reverse, per-
vaded the length and breadth of the
land. The cry of Great Britain's mill
itary weakness, the
Rottenness of Her Army
organization and the menacing acts of 9TH
er powers was stilled and the tears of
those who had become widows or fath5rless
because of this great thing were only so
much more intense to the triumphant War
God. Since the strife began almost every
one has said: I'VE are bound to win"
but, it was not until this week that a
large percentage of the people could ac-
tually convince themselves of the certainty
of the phrase SO glibly repeated Small
wonder, then. that the war is the sole
topic of the week
Some of the demonstrations quite out
did those of the people of Paris. 1t takes
an effort of imagination to picture the
ordinary middle-class English girl march
Ing bareheaded through the streets, sing
ing and shouting and waving flags, but
this IS what occurred. About loco male
and female students of the Kensington Art
Schools, the girls hatless and wearing their
modelling gowns, and the men in overalls,
marched, singing and cheering, to the AL
bert Memorial and thence to Mr. Joseph
Chamberla:ns house, where Mrs Cham
berlain smilingly acknowledged the ova-
ton and Mr.. J. Austen Chamberlain, the
Colonial Secretary's eldest son, made
speech.
The Sentries Refused
this strange band admission to the
knightsbridge Barracks, so they had to
sing Rule Britannia" outside At Colo
rel Baden-Powells house they sang For
He is a Jolly Good Fellow" and, passing
the French embassy, to indicate their
feelings they maintained an ominous ST.
lence. 1t was a w,erd procession for staid
old England.
number of boys OF the Westminster
schools demonstrated somewhat similarly
in front of the offices of the Canadian
High Commissioner and other Colonial
Agents.
The scenes after the battle of Waterloo.
as described by the writers of that day,
were nothing as compared with the scenes
witnessed this week.
Society has pulled itself together and
the first Drawing Room of the season,
March Is, promises TO be brilliant affair.
Dinner parties are increasing in number
Mrs. Arthur Paget is going to give sec
ond addition to her tableaux. possibly in
June, while in May Lady Edward Church.
Ill brings off something similar, probably
at Drury Lane.
Mr.. Herbert W. Peck, the United States
Commissioner to the Paris Exposition, and
Mrs. Peck, happened TO be present in the
House of Lords Thursday at in the inter-
esting moment of the announcement of
the relief of Ladysmith, and the Attorney
General, Sir Richard Webster, improved
the occasion by presenting Mr.. and Mrs.
Peck to the Prince Of Wales, who is Pres
ident of the British Exposition Commits
sion. His Ropai Highness greeted the
Americans most cordially. Mr.. and Nm.