The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-09-09
Unique Organization in London Will Celebrate
 for Just One Night
MILLIONS ENROLLED
 IN THE MEMBERSHIP
Plan Is for Nation to Cast Aside Restraints for Few Hours
 When End of Great tl,idA War Comes
By GILBERT sELDEs

LOuQOn, August -E1.-kS kSpeCldl CO4 respondence)- powerful underground society whose purpose it is to shake the foundation of the British social system, has been organizing in Lon don. A year ago it's numbers were few, today thousands have enrolled, and with each day of the war the mum Der grows On the day set for its coup d'etat 1t expects to have enrolled be- tween 50o0,0OO and 100000 men, women and children.
 It Is secret society. I am permit ted to send out general description of its activities, because the society is already so strong that nothing can in terfere with its plans, the detail of which I am pledged, as member, to keep secret. The society will make its desperate attempt on a certain day, the conspirators will be informed be- tween and 10 hours in advance and assigned to their fixed posts. Whether the attempt succeeds ,or fails, the so . ciety goes out of existence at dawn the next day. It has no Intentions against the political system, the reign ing house or the London county coun- cil.t It is purely an anarchtcal organ iZation which intends to blow up the British social system one night. If there is enough left of the social sys tenn to be collected the next morning, the society is indifferent to the future.
 Vague hints of the existence of this society have appeared the press Ap- parently the organizers are so firmly entrenched that they do not fear the authorities any longer. They are throwing out suggestions in the pa pers so that their enrolment may pro- ceed more rapidly than it could by pri- Vate recruitment
 NAME OF SOCIETY
 The name of this society is "The Mafeking League"
 CMafeking; Held by Baden-Powell in the Boer war; reported surrendered and immediately after reported re- 1ieved, May 17-1S, 1900 Unprecedent- ed rioting in London and other cities of England Hence "Mafeling' ng''-riot- ing; ''to maffick'-to be noisily joy full. to throw your arms about stran- gers neck, to link arms and march round Trafalgar Square, to brush cops aside and to sing Rule Britannia" to kiss all the pretty girls and to imagine all girls pretty. to forget the reserve : of an Englishman and to be human for 24 hours. to celebrate a victory a ~ictary deserves to be ce1ebrated).
 The activities of this society will come to a head on the night peace is declared
 (The phrase night peace is de- clared' may need explanation. The Mafeking league admits no one to membership who does not firmly be :. lieve in a victorious peace for the allies, The league also holds as the first tenet of faith that peace will be declared-by the allies It does not be- lieve that we shall just drift into reace, without a smashing victory; it is not interested in armistices and the like. It knows definitely that on ono day you will be able to say that the war Is still on and on the next day you will not be able to say the war is still on. The purpose of the Mafe king leag que Is to make you spend your time so between those two days that you will hardly be able to say truly rural" on the second day).
 HIGH MAFFICKER DESCRIBES TT
 The Mafeking league is a student of national temperaments. The results of its complete studies were given to me by the great high Mafficker in an ex- elusive interview, as follows:
 ITO use a simile much in the present mind. there are two types of national psychology, like two kinds of shells. Some go off on contact and some need bursting charge to set them off. The French and the Americans are the for mer type, the British distinctly the latter.
 "Now. what we purpose doing is tc form compact little explosive bodies which will set the whole shell off or the night peace Is declared. We'll al want to riot, but some of us will be afraid and some of us will get thinking about the cost and some will be toe tired Understand, we are not mini mixing the strain of England which i: going to be at a still greater tension as the war proceeds. We feel how ever, that we ought to celebrate that night, because we have seen the wal through and a plucky good job of il The next day and the next week we may think about everything. Ina night is for rejoicing. At any rate, i will be peace. at last.
 "On the night peace is declared wt shall enroll every man, woman ani