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demonstration. This took the fora of a torchlight
procossion, headed by the diatrict ate roller, which
included trade smen0s floats and a number of people in
fancy droso representing Charxberlain, Kruger and the
Absent minded Beggar. The piece do resibtanco wt a
geniune wounded aoldier carried on a stratcher,
Almost the cams* activities were duplicated on the
save occaoiozu in almost every town in the country.
In London on the relief of Ladysmith on 2nd March "tho
contagion of the moment was upon everyone. Elderly,
sober minded merchants came into the thick of its
singing and waving the national colours on the end of
their walking sticks and umbrellas**" Members of the
Stock Exchange, the Corn Exchange and Covent Garden
Market Joined in the celebrations.
(2)
(1)
The pictur'o of
uninhibited behaviour was almost the name as that drawn
for 1inndoworth
There won a good deal of jingo nymbolicn expressed in
(1) Sb i., 2nd, 8th June
I1a d worth Mail, 8th June 1900.
(2) DMilX ttizi1y 2nd Mirch 1900.