Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-21
TERMS OF PEACE
BoERs MUST SURRENDER UNcoN'
DITIONALLY.
WILL F NO TERMS.
celebrations End in Disorder and Up
roar-Militia Called Upon Rea-
lize Their Position.

London, May II, $40 a. m.-Placed IN
the most conspicuous style IN the Daily
Express is the dominant var news of the
morning.
I'VE lave the best reasons Tor stat-
ing that in the last twenty-four hours
a telegram has been received AT the lot
eign office addressed personally TO the
prime minister from PRESIDENT hruSei
proposing terms of peac .
The exact terms of the message cam
not be stated: but WI believe it is couch
ed in all exceedingly M strain.
1t is inconceivable, of course. that Lord
Salisbury can have sent any reply, eN-
cept the one that stands ready on the lip
of every observation-disclosures surren-
der.
The boisterous rejoicings over the news
from Mafeking have become riotous in
parts of London, Aberdeen and Belfast
and elsewhere in the United Kingdom.
In the Finschley district of suburban
London, mob stoned the railway station
and smashed the windows of a diapers
shop. setting the building on fire also. al
though whether by accident or design it
is not yet known. Two clerks were in
jured. The house of a Boer sympathizer
at Harlston was attacked by a large mob
and the windows were shattered. The
police charged the mob and We're greeted
with a shower of decayed eggs. Nu-
merous arrests We're made and the police
reserves We're called out.
Rioting took place in Aberdeen from
: to 10 o'clock Saturday evening around
a hall where a stop the war" meeting
was being addressed by Mr.. Cronwrigt
Schreiner, husband of Olive Schreiner.
A crowd of students and others tried
to storm the hall. The foot police were
unable to cope with the disturbers and
sent for the oun police. who made
some Roadway with the crowd, but
f,.an "A ohtc naa,,pyhI Lnt ~ ~ ~, ,,t
ers Of the meeting and the crowd and
the Royal infrmary, near by. was kept
busy dressing the wounds of combatants
caused by stones, bricks and clubs. A
number of arrests were made and finally
the chief constable to call out the militia.
The Gordon H~ighlanders from the castle
barracks then cleared the streets.
Within the hall the onnonen Of the
promoters of the meeting practically
broke it up and carried an amendment to
the principal resolution. The residence
of Rev. Alexander Webster, where Mr..
Schreiner tayed, was damaged.
Boer sympathizers stoned a procession
OF shipyard employees at Belfast, and
there were some disorders in Birming-
ham.
A Dover the business establishment of
y. Brown, a member of the local chamber
o. ommerce, was wrecked by a mob.
EIhe police were unable to cope with the
disturbance and the local artillery and
volunteers were called out. AS the riot
ing continued the Royal artillery was
called upon to suppress the mob.
nv. Lord NJ. Cecil, a son of the premier,
preaching yesterday in Gray's Inn chapel
London, before the Australian federation
delegates and other notables, referred tc
these demonstrations of violenc and said;
The popular enthusiasm prevailing
the country is dangerous
Inc line between good and evil is soon
oVfrun by the unthinking crowd. The
loutburst Is evil insofar as it is the same
spirit which animated the Roman
crowds n the Coliseum while the gladi-
Eators pursued each other to the death
but 1T is good insofar as it is a protest
against one of he greatest evils of the age
the love of money"
special prayers of thanksgiving were
offered yesterday in the churches of thu
United Kingdom. The lord bishop o.
London, DR.. Creighton who preached
De1ore the queen at Windsor. alluded
10 the relief of Mafeking, and clergy.
men generally found in the event thei,
topic for the day.
the British military authorities bein,
Wltnout dispatches. Lord Roberts wira
1hat ne knows of the relief only thro11el
a press agency. Lord L~ansdowne, how
eve, that the war office ex
poets direct news today.
The situation in the field has rhanuo
but little since Friday. Lord Roberts
troops are In fine form and MI,
Indications seem to point +
an early movement, his cavalry havin
the Free Staters. y
1t now appears that the Dewet Who of
Tered to surrender with 1000 men, wa
not the well known General Dewet hi,
Commandant Dewet. He stipulated tina
his men should be allowed to return +
fhplIs a ~ nNJ
the surrender must be unconditional.
The Botha who was captured the othe
day was Phillip Botha. Those surrender
ing are solemnly warned that if the
Dreak the oath of neutrality their house
will be burned and their farms confis
Gated. Such as do yield, do so only fc
protection.
Reports flow into Lord Roberts =
headquarters of the encouragement c
the Beers and of their willingness. eve
In the case of the ~Transvaalers, to civ
uu. President Steyn is described as ha,
ing lost his head several times recent,
Ihe original of the telegram addresse
to the burghers at Ventersburg urein
them to hold out was really written g
petersburg. a place which surrendere
early in March. President Steyn, VIII
was last reported as leaving Pretori
after a consultation with the Transya
government, has gone again to the from
The Daily Telegraph is advised that
prot has been discovered at Pretoria 4
depose President Kruger and to surrendt
the Transvaal during the present mont1
progressive Dutchmen and members
the Judiciary are asserted to have bee
PARTIES to the movement.
A Cape Town correspondent reasser
that the Irish-American ambulance corr
from Chicago suffered heavily during RI
fighting at Kroonstad n that Unite
States Consul Hay had protested vain
to President Kruger against using I'll
corps on the fighting line.
General Butler is in front of Laing
Mex to attack positions. The repor
that the Beers have blown up porto,
Of the tunnel are confirmed. Althous