The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-05-19
NAFEKENG
HAS BEEN
RELIEVED
vDrlaad wild with Joy-People
rhrong the Thoroughfares Sing
ing SOLDIERS Of the Queen"
MANY IMPORTANT CAPTURES.
v,DDrted That Landdrost and other
oacials Have Been Taken Prts-
Onsrs-war Cannot Last Long

LONDON, May 10, 4 a. m.-London's
rr,laps spent half the night in the
.,,cat and even at 4 O'Clock this morn
I,c troops OF young men are promenad-
,ns @ singing and cheering, and there
@ o,s crowds in front of the Mansion
Topss Marlborough House, the clubs
on Pail MalY and the war office and in
rorIlament square, waving flags and
%lnpr in the national airs.
This sustained believing and uproar
If hundreds of thousands umazes the
Trclshman who ceases for a moment
N be an actor and becomes merely an
observer. Sober, phlegmatiO London is
beslde itself with emotion. Gusts of pa
tr,otlsm have set the town QuIvering
twice or thrice before during the war,
but nothing has quite equntIed to-
nights hundred square mile of almost
furious demonstration.
The Crowd Went Wild.
II was a curious thing for the on
locker to see solemn. gray-haired men
toss their opera hats into the air and
,oin in the hurricane OF cheers when a
wreath-crowned banner, with the por-
t,al, Of colonel Baden-Powell on It was
borne along Piecadllly. Smart women
IN brOughamsl waved Union Jacks out
Of the windows. Convention family
uurtlss stopped at street corners to
take part In singing God Save the
Queen" and SOLDIERS of the Queen"
Everywhere were abandon, good feel
Inc and an astonishing roar Of human
voices.
/. was all brought about by twenty
word telegram from Pretoria that
Mafeklng had been relieved. Although
the government has not word and
nothing conhrmatory has been received
from any African source except Pretor-
ia, nobody, apparently, questions the
news.
News Comes Through the Press.
Mr.. Arthur j. Balfour, government
leader in the house OF commons, speak
ing from the government bench late
last evening. said:
THE only news / have is through
the courtesy OF the press. We have no
Information at the war Office. need
hardly say that we all trust and We
have good reason to think that It is
probably true" tCheers)
Mr.. George wyndham, parliamentary
under-secretary for war, replying to
several members of the house who had
privately lnterrogated him, said:
Although the government has moth
Ing. | am disposed to believe the Boer
bulletin. 1t may be tomorrow and per-
haps even Monday. before the govern
ment would got dispatches from our
military commanders"
Colonel Baden Powell's brother in
London has received a telegram from a
Dutch friend in Pretoria, saying that
Mahklag has been relieved.
Prince of Wales Joins in Applause.
The performers in the London music
halls and theatres last evening had lit
tie use for stage business or for the
lines OF their peaces. The audiences
which crowded the Alhambra, the EN-
prr, Convent Garden. or the theatres
had no desire to attend to stage per-
formances. The first sight of n bio
graph scene in the Transvaat or the
first glimpse of a military or naval
costume on the stage was suncient to
create an uproar.
The Prince OF Wales, the Duke and
Duchess OF York and the Portuguese
minister, Senior Pinto do Several. oc-
cuDied a box at Convent Garden. where
"Lohengrin" was being presented, and
when the relief of Mafeking was an
nounced they Joined heartily in the ap-
plause.