ly all Friday night, all day through Saturday 8 and far into Sunday morning the rejoicings were kept up. They were perhaps not quite so spontaneotts as the outburst which greeted the relief of Ladysmith, for the news was not so unexpected; but it way on a far bigger scale, Everywhere the houses were "decorated with flags, and in the streets at night young men and women grouped themselves into orderly proc sions, waving banners and singing patriotis songs. Curiously enough, the only place where there was anything approaching disorder was in front of t mansion House From this busiest spot in all London wheeled traffic had to be diverted on Saturday on account of the crowds of people on foot, and unfortunately a number of roughs and pickpockets got in among the people and picked pockets under the ver of the police, who were far too weak in numbers to attempt to interfere with them, There was a good deal of pure rowdyism, too, and the next morning battered and broken hats were cleared away literally by the cartload, at "BP's" LONDON HOME.
In the West End, the great centre of attraction was the house a few yards from St. George's Hospital, overlooking the Park and the Row by Hyde Park Corner, where Mrs. Baden-Powell, the mother of the hero of Mafeking, and his sister are living. One would imagine it must have been a little trying for the residents, for they had no rest by night or day; but Mrs, Baden-Powell never weened of responding to the hearty salutations of the crowd. The house was gaily decorated from top to bottom, and in the windows were bouquets of flowers which had been sent by B-P.'s admirers. On Saturday night Mrs. Baden Powell went to the Alhambra, and one has no difficulty in imagining the sort of greet~ ing she got when, with her son, the Q.C., and her daughter, she showed herself in a box. We did not know then the fulness of General Baden-Powell's triumph. Only a vague report had reached us of that brilliant victory over the besiegers which, four days before the relief, had resulted in the capture of young Doff and over a hundred prisoners. "Some of us, too, had an under= lying sense of uneasiness' through it. all. The only news of the relief had come from Pretoria; and although it seemed impossible to imagine any motive which would have induced the Boers to invent a story so damaging to themselves, we were longing all the time for an official confirmation from British sources. However, the demonstration could not have been more hearty had we known everything.
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