MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1931.
A GREAT SOUTH AFRICAN.
Reminiscences of a Notable Life.
SIR PERCY FITZPATRICK.
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More years pass and Johannes- [troduced into the country 011 3 barg writhes under the un-large scale--not reforms, but guns, |sympathetic, despatie, and some heavy and light, from the Crenaot what archaic Government of Paul factory of France, and the Krupp Kruger and his satellites.
factory of Germany,
A "Reform Committer" la form- Jed, comprising most of the lending men in the city, irrespective of na tionality, to ventilate grievances ing to dematud "Reforms."
The Uitlonders,
I saw some of them unparked al the "Stants Artillerie" Barracks, Pretoria in 1897, when I lay, sick night unto death for a time with enterie fever, in the "bolks hos-
The death
pital" adjoining, and I wondered Sir J. Perey❘ The "hig of
tive" members were, then that Great Britain, as para- Fitzpatrick, which took place in Charles Leonard (the Chairman), amount, if not "Suzerain" (that was South Afrien recently, aroused little
South African Attorney, John disputed) power in South Africa, general interest in Malaya, hit to area Hammond, an American and did not say "Stop," as, obviously, a few of us it gave a pang of real probably the leading mining enench fresh gun that arrived increas regret, as we knew that one of theginer of the world, George Farrar, ed the risk of what eventually great personalities of the Empire Farrar Bras, mine owners, etc.), transpired that S.A. of a generati mi ago had gone to his
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A Political Leader.
brother), and J. P. Fitzpatrick At the conclusion of that most Fitzpatrick was South African Secretary),
distressing and regrettable war, the born---presumably of Irish stock---
The principal objects of the Com-Transvaal, was under Martial Law, but of the early life. I know little.mittee were 1) to obtain repre-which gave place later to Crown Whilst still a young man, however, rentation on a reasonable basis (the Cobmy Government, then to Re- he did what many South Africans old, old ery). (2) to have taxation presentative (nominated Members), without any specific training, did boss vimlictively specialised on the and later to Responsible Govern- in those days--he became a "Tran-neweomers (Uitlanders)" sport tidor"-that is, he ander have more protection for life and took the Transport of merchandise, machinery etc.. by waggon from the railway termini te unconnected villages. mies etc., particularly perhaps to Barberton, the Miera of the early gold seekers.
Railways, motor lorries, etc., have almost driven the waggons from the South African roads nowadays, but forty to thirty years ago, even later, strings of them could be seen threading their way across the reld. making evula ne at least tracks, as they went.
(3) toment.
property (murders etc., were very I cannot recall anything of frequent), (4) to have some English Fitzpatrick in those passing years, Education, (5) to have a less cor- but On the introduction of Re- rupt and more efficient administra-sponsible Government, he took his tion, etc., ele.
natural place as a great figure in
Werder .H.
REDS WITHDRAW.
PEKING-HANKOW TRAINS RESUME RUN.
There was no declared intentioneal polities, being leader, if my LINE NOW WELL, GUARDED. af altering the form of Government,memory does not fail me, of the of changing the Flag-merely, "Progressive" Party (British and by a reasonable extension of the same Modern Dutch)-opposed to Franchise, to have a genuine Re-which was the South African Party, public. Instead of an Oligarebs, as under
Botha, Smuts, the Transvaal had then become, Hertzog elc.-essentially a Dutch
Party.
There was much jealousy in those days, there is some
Generala
still between
and eduen-
Hankow, Saturday. Hankow Railway
Through trains on the Peking- resumed on Thursday.
On affected area is now
the railway line the heavily arded by the Sixth Division of! Nanking Troops.
The Reds are reported to have withdrawn fifteen li from railway line. Reuter.
the
MISSING BARONET.
WIFE CONFIDENT THAT HE WILL RETURN.
There was much sympathy, how ever, for the other side of the ques The Bear Governments boked on tion. President Kruger, himself, "Transport Riding" as one of the was
ol VOLTRE, one of the beautiful, and dignified Pretoria country's essencial industries, and bortrekkers." and 90 were the sent of Government), burenu- opposed as long as possible the con- some 1 his followers and Jeratie, and auperior, struction of railways into their fer the
and *thers, if
them-Johannesburg, the haunt of the they ritaries. fearing their crushing gives, had
not shed their blood. Gold "Diggers," and adventurers of competition. The first railway in and endured privations and daggers many nations.-now aleo a great the Transvaal, as a matter of fact. innumerable in occupying the coun-commercial, industrial
"alug the Reef" (Johannesburg) try, they were at least, the children tional centre. -was authorised only because it for those who had, and naturally General Botha stood for a Pre- the "Concession," it was speciously jagh they hated the iden of allow-toria Constituency, and it may be designated-"The Rand Tram." ling what they considered a tem-accepted that he was the most trust- Fitzpatrick must have loved the parary population of gold chasersed, and most popular man in what life-trekking" through unopen- and of alien adventurers, to divide was, practically, his own city. ed country, wide open plains with authority with them, Time has To my amazement, Fitzpatrick- marvellous sunsets and sunrises shown how groundless their fears a Johannesburg man-got nominat- No news has yet been received glowing on the distant mountainsara, as even now, just over thirty-ed for the same constituency-car- of Sir Francia Burrow, the baronet ranges, on through the thick and five years later, with да open ried the war of peace into the who disappeared 18 glamorous ""bushveld"--(erawling European) Franchise, the Govern- enemy's camp-and then followed a and
years ago, who was asked in an SOS ment of South Africa is still in the gladiatorial struggle.
brondeast last night to come to hands of the same old Dutch party. The only other election that the sick bed of his son. Personalities havo changed and stands in my memory bracketed methods have certainly advanced, with this one in displaying in an but, in essentials, the policy of equal degree the paladin spirit of Hertzog to-day is the same as was courage in what was apparently, a the policy of Paul Kruger, 35 years forlorn hope, was when Major
General Andrew Gilbert Wan- chope of Niddrie, long years be- fore, challenged Gladstone in Mid lothian.
age,
The requests of the Reformers 0181 with little sympathy or en couragement from the Government, though a few, especially of the The fight in each case was much younger members (such as Smuts) more than a conflict of political counselled some degree of concilia-principles.
man,
Teddington, Jan. 14.
The son and heir, Mr. Wilfred John Wilson Crocker Barrow, is in a grave condition at his home, Cromer House, Ilampton Road, Teddington.
His wife and his mother, Lady Barrow, are with him night and day. During the inar few days ho has asked for his father several times, and so, although Sir Francis had not been heard of since he went away from his Londen home tion. The general attitude was Wanchope had the enormous nd in 1912, it was decided to broad- "It's all very
well, your hus- thus expressed by one Member of vantage of being a local
cast an appeal for him to return. band being in the
'Smash and the "buksrand" (People's Council trusted and loved, yet he Was Lady Barrow WAR in the Grab business, but if he don't "If they want the Franchise, let benten, Fitzpatrick-miracle of grounds of Cromer House-a big seon replace these bricks, I'll tell them fight for it."
miracles captured the zeal, and old country house, standing well the police."
Cecil Rhodes, at this time, was Botha bad to hunt for another con- buck from the Hampton Road. Possing Show, London. Prime Minister of Cape Colony, as stituency in the "veld," or as we She was with her two little grand- well as head of the Chartered Co. would say in these parts, in the daughters, the pretty children of (Rhodesia), and a great though "ulu."
Mr. Barrow. She had just snatch- ad a. short time. to take a walk before returning to her son.
Lady Barrow stated that she is confident that her husband will respond to the appeal.
with Fame in those dayson secret supporter of the Reformers. More years passed, and the uni through the river "drifts" (fonds) Arms to A moderate very fication of South Africa took place if one was lucky enough to meet a moderate-extent were smuggled Caps Colony, Orange Free State, river, on over the mountain passes into Johannesburg,
Transvaal, and Natal), and in the ("poorts" or "neks"), and down the ments were being made for widened hut similar political winding koppie-flanked valleys. armed rising. Meantime, Dr. parties, Fitzpatrick again attacked Doubtless he had his riding pony, Jameson, Administrator of Botha in Pretoria, and again de-
600 of feated him.
un arrange- an
"I have not heard from him er. heard anything of him for all those years." she said, "but I feel
r.
and doubtless too, he often alipped Rhodesin, mobilised about of into the bush, (whilst the their military police on the Tran- For a time I had thought it poa-convinced that he is alive and in waggons creaked along in the care avaal border, ready when the wordsible that Fitpatrick might become this country. of the Head "Boy," and the "boorwas given to dash for Johannesburg the first "Union" Premier, but long "Something seems to tell me looper" with his rifle or gun, teto co-operate with the Reformers before the first Union elections, that either he will have heard bring back something for the pot stensibly to guard the women and took place I had sensed that it must the appeal or that some people in
-Steenbuck, Duiker, Springbok, children in case of disturbances. be Botha, though the claims of John touch with him will, and that with-
1
Guinea Fowl. "Paauw" (Bustard), Jameson grew impatient of de- X. Merriman, the great orator of in a few hours perhaps he will be Partridge, Knorhaan, Dikkon etc.lays, and finally, without receiving the "Cape" had many supporters. here. etc.,-a glorious, interesting, open the signal, made his famous—or in- Somehow, perhaps owing to healthy life.
famous "Rald" inte the Tran-health consideration, Fitzpatrick did Books of the Bushveli.. vaal. It was a shameful act, and not press his political career, and Yes! he must have loved it; for ill judged, but unquestionably for many years, he has not figured probably no man has written more plucky, and when I saw them two or in public life at all. Irresistibly of the fascinations of three days later, outside Krugers Eleven months ago, it happened the "bushvel" than he has in his dorp, I yearned to go to their aid. Town for Europe on the same day, that Fitzpatrick and I left Cape wonderful book-"Jock of the and felt all the youthful fever and
fervour of hero worship.
but on different steamers. I re- "Jack" was a dog, and the story. The Reformers were unprepared member it clearly as when I went though completely different in its and collapsed, and Jameson
to say "Good Bye" to a brother, I setting and lucidents, deserves to rendered next day at Doornkop met him just returning from ex- rank with that other artistic within about twelve miles of tending masterpiece of a dog story-"Rob Johannesbúrg. and his Friends."
Bushvell."
sur-
"My son is a little better to-day. The news that his father has been asked to come to see him has cheered him up, and he, too, thinks that he will come. He is able to sit up in bed to-day." brothers of Mr. Barrow, Mr. In the house, too, are the two
Alfred Francis Barrow and Mr. Edward Barrow,
War Services, Mr. Wilfred Barrow is 33 and ກ afmilar courtesy to in 1926 he married Miss Patricia Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick was a Uniacke. They lived at Castelnau Consternation prevailed in the sick man then going "home" partly until last month, when they mov- He gives a wonderfully vivid de-city. Charles Leonard, made a on health account, and partly to ed Into Cromer House. Mr. seription of the old ploneering pro-fucky, but undignified escape to arrange for the publication of an-Barrow was then in good health, spectors, baring their lonely ways Cape Colony, and was duly banish- other book.
but he was taken ill about 12 days into the wilds, living on the coun-ed. but nearly all the other leading side by side in Walvis-Walfish Bay war services in France, where he Four daya later our steamers lay ago. His illness is attributed to try as they went, many of them Reformera-now called "ring- alast censing to go when fever leaders"-were arrested.
Another day and our served as a captain in the Royal A special that was. caught them in some remote court was constituted to try the paths had diverged once more this Fusiliers, He joined the Army
four of them already mentioned-
time permanently.
when he was 17.
miasmic valley.
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Was
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CREATING LIFE IN THE LABORATORY.
A Link Between Lifeless and Living.
Artificial cells, brought into existence in the laboratory of Dr. George W. Crile at the Cleve- land Clinic, may form a link be tween the Hfeless and the living, it was revealed by Dr. Crile în an interview.
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Primitive Cells. Further research may reveal that they are primitive cells re- sembling more nearly the cells of. cancer and hence throwing im- portant light upon the study of that disease.
vere revealed when Dr. Crile for the first time discussed the work which has been going on in his laboratory and made known details of the He has a daughter and three experiment, news of which leak- zone, of whom the eldest is Wilfrid John Wilson Croker Barrow, on whose behalf the wire leus appeal. was broadcast.
Ten years before he had married Winifred Sarah, daughter of the late Mr. W. G. Steward, of Cart- ente.. Whitehaven.
After the prospectors-(I quote Haremond, Farrar, Rhodes, Fitzpat From an Empire point of view Sit Francis Laurence John from memory, as I lent my "Jock)," rick, on a charge of High Trenson. Fitzpatrick will be reinembered for Barrow, the fourth baronet, he says "came the hunters who They were, all four, found guilty, some years as the originator of the born in August 1862. He succeed- traded, and the traders who hunt-and sentenced to death, which sent "Two minutes Silence" on Armised his father, Sir John Croker, in
He wrote another moat fascinat- "Uitlander" in the country.
a chill down the spine of each tice Day, but I venture to think 1900.
that his "Jock of the Bushveld" will ing book "The Outspan"-again Looking back on it, there is little last longer than the "Silence." full of the grip of the South doubt but that the above sentences May he rest in peace.-L.R.M. African veld Hfe, introducing most were passed mainly to give the delightfully the "biles" Pro-Kruger Government a theatrical nounced Flay)-shallow patches of opportunity of showing its great water, often temporary, and usually clemency. fringed with wildfowl, sometimes A few daya passed, and then the including that bird which a uni- tension was relieved by the sent- versally acknowledged to be' "wonances being commuted to four fines derful"the Pelican,
of £25,000 each, and short terms
I would not dare to read either of of imprisonment.
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unsettling,
The Reform movement, and Its denouements form a most interest-
We now skip over a number of ing incident, the story of which is years and find, Fitzpatrick installed admirably told by Fitzpatrick in his
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The missing baronet's daughter, Mildred Mary Winifred Barrow is now Mrs. Stanhope Rowe, and is living in Jamaica.
The other two sons are Albert) Francis, aged twenty-six, and Edward Barrow, aged eighteen.
One of Sir Francie sisters; Mary Mercy Barrow, is a Francia- can nun.
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The second baronet was chief, cork at the Colonial Offies.
Mrs. Wilfrid Barrow laat might
These facts
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"For the present," said Dr. Crile, let us regard the cell es somewhere in the vague ground between the lifeless and the liv- ing."
declined to add anything to the anzouncement.
She said that she supplied the Information to the B.B.C. herself In the hope that it would lend to the tracing of her husband's fathor, but she did not want to say anything more,
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