The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-05-31
FOR
!. ADEBAUICH ]:
English People Plan to "Maf-
fiok on a Large Scale
Monday Night.
Cape Colony Said to Be Hon
eycombed With Rebellion:
Trouble Feared

London, May 31.-If definite anounce-
ment of peace in South Africa Is made on
Monday, as expected, that night will bid
when the relief of Mafeking was oficially
announced in May, 1900. Throughout Lon
don arrangements already have been
made for numerous peace dinners. The
aristocracy will "maf1ick'' on no small
scale, and doubtless the denizens Of
Whitechapel and the various east end
quarters will invade the Strand and other.
thoroughfares with their wild exultation. 5
For Monday afternoon every seat in the
house of commons is already pre:empted.
If the statement Of the government lead
er, A. j.. Balfour, comes up to expecta-
lions little, will be done In the United
Kingdom that day except exultatton over:
the end of the war that has tried the
spirit Of the nation to its uttermost. Al
ready the wiseacres are saying that Lord
Kitchener will be made an earl and re-
ceive the thanks Of parliament accom-
panied by substantial grant OF money.
Lord Kitchener'sE star sAscends.
One Of the most curious features Of the
war is the rema rka Bile way:in which Lord
Kitchener has deepened the awesome re-
spect, akin to fear with which the Brit
ish nation regards him and his laconic re-
ports His utterly Independent prosecu-
ton Of the campaign in South Africa has
heightened his military reputation to such
an extent that he has actually become a
| god to the average man In the street.
Yet. he is universally admitted to have
next to nothing IN Uncommon; with his
countrymen or their government.
| AS Lord Kitchener's star has assembled
so has Lord Roberts declined. The genial
! optimism of the old fighter who is now
comma nder in -ehiefgrates so bitterly up
on a people severely overtaxed for the
| war which Lord Roberts so long ago de-
clared finished, that the spontaneous popu-
| larity which made him the hero of the
| jubilee procession could never be repeated
! at the coronation. Indeed 1t is more
| likely to be TRANSFORMED into hostile
| demonstration in which General Butler S
| name be greeted with cheers.
However, peace is undoubtedly the
| question Of the hour and Lord Kitchener
| is once more the man Of the moment.
Lord Miner may Or may not have played
an Important part in the peace negotia-
| lions but popular and political opinions
assign to tie -Strdars.of the Egyptian
| forces the bringing about of the present
| negotiations. This feeling is by no means
confined to outsiders. Great financial
magnates whose information regarding
| the conditions In South Africa has often
| been better than the governments and
whose interests there are almost-as great
| as the empires, declare that Lord Kitch-
| ener is the savior Of his country.
| Discordant Rumor. &
| IA descendant note in the overture is
| the erumor that there is state Of affairs
| in Cape Colony which will overturn all
the present designs for peace. From the
Africander Bund conferences at which
representatives from all portions of the
| colony were present, 1t is learned that
Cape Colony Is, honeycombed with dis
loyalty through and through, that allegi-
| ance to England is silken thread
stretched almost to the breaking point
and that an ignoble peace In the Trans
ys= Is.