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HONGKONAS DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER
GEN. SMUTS ON B AFRICA'S- "DANGER.
UNITY AGAINST BECESSION. General Smats, speaking at the opening of the Congress of the South African Party which assembled at Bloemfmtein, on October
THE NEW HUMANISM.
SIR H WARREN ON MODERN LANGUAGE STUDY.
College, Oxford, who is this year the pres Sir Herbert Warren, President of Magdalen ident of the Oxford Branch of the Modern Languages Association, delivered the pres-- idential address the annual
27th to consider the formation of a new meeting of the branch, on "The Vol.
party out of all sections of the South African people in support of the Constitution, and against the Nationalist policy of accession said that the country must either move or ward or backward, Moun
The position was (he continued) that the Nationalists had become a Republican party, whose chaim was to secede fromthe British Commonwealth. They still talkedof acting constitutionally, but how long would they be satisfed in their headling course with that position. Their ideas of what was constitutional were very elastic
the Modern Humanities."
bf
• which once the prince
Humaniim, he said, was sometimes used to denote the study of man as opposed to that of Nature. More often it was opposed to barbarism, first to the enemies of Gresce, then to those of Home, and then to the rustic or rade toes of city cultura 正 thue came ..to mean elegance and Y
Petrarch. As and pioneer of
bad A Symonds aid, the word “humanism" a German sound, but in reality was Italian. Professor W. P. Ker, who had succeeded him Bir Herbert Warren) in the Chair of Postry, had written an illuminating volume on: The Dark Ages," in which he And destroyed the claim of his subject to its title, for he had left those agus no dark. They were a period not of Egyptian blackman, but of what would long now be called low visibility. ***
lit by the stars of Cicero, Horace, Lucan and the moon of Virgi the sunken sun of Hemer. When were really the national party of Booth in twilight ended there came the dis- Africa, and the Nationalists had become a covery of the Far East and West, the Republican party. The Prime Ministe
Benaissance, the Reformation, the Coper proceeded to quote from speeches by Gen-nican systems, altogether an immense expan erals Botha, Mtegn, and Hertzog, showing sion and revolution. the great common spirit there was at she Who bad wander
Hereeniginge eunion had failed because the Natiqnalise insisted upon independance Hence today the Nationalists motto was South Africa a Republic," while the motto of the South African Party Africa a Nation The
Party
and
To-day they sw again a now birth of time, casting the nations old into another
the time of the Union. Ho emplis mould” The three great Latin countries"
new
od away since then! be sired that there had been no interference
NOW by England, and that South Africa, had which linked the Old World with the grown to higher statas, which secession and the Mediterranean with the Atlantic must destroy, quite apart from separating Italy, France, Spain-were all full of the hite races. The tendency of the the Mediterranean with the Black and Red aims The older nationalities which linked Nationalists was to create a new and moBeas and Europe with Asia and Africa,
the dangerous Uitlander," question. A house divided against itself could not stand. Greek and the Hebrew, seemed to be enter ing also on a new phase like that so poetical General Smatä strongly urged the neces described in Shelley's "Hellas, in the sity of a strong Government party on ninhas com They might say to their
"The world's great racial lines to guide South Africs through begins anew. the present critical times". South Africa was young people what Mme. de Stael said: threatened on the one hand by "a strong to the young American "You are the future. party working deliberately for political revo of the world." Of the German and the lution,
and on the other,
Slav he hardly liked to speak. Would be willing to take their place, not more growing party economic the spectre o
Canti loot nd I then not less than their place, in a new!!
and behind them was of Bolshevism, which
made even Labourites nervous And the natives mean time, observing all this had began to talk of their African Republic.
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Europe? Was not united Germany in A cosmopolitan Europe, friendly with France, with Italy, and with England, the dream of the greatest wind of Germany, the poet Consequently, looking to the great fature Goethe But there was another great factor within South Africa's reach, he was now and possibility of unity to be found in the making a list attempt to form a new united reconciliation of the Churches, the Orthodox, party of all moderate citizens, of whatever the Roman, and the English. The League maca or party to form a strong Government. of Nations was yet anotherz isir ideal. He did demann too much from anyone, The undergraduates, both men and women, no dissolution or Extinction of the South of the present might, and probably would, African Party, but reorganization and ex-see in another 30 years changes rat more pansion, the opening of the door for others. momentous than each of the Inst two half- The details could be threshed out later centuries had witnessed. If they were to Thousands of moderste people, Generalke an inteligent part in them they must
to know-God, Nature, -- such a party, and he doubted whether the know, toch, fence, and top-manities moderate Nationalist" would long remain Their concern was with the last. Why did still more aloot In the meanwhile he anticipated they study any foreign language, that many Unionista would join ita any foreign literature? It was because they be declared, "He would bid all elsoner
annnderstanding, an entento. the Coalition bogy will not wanted to have an
because their soul was 'ex- fughten
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was based, first, on the larger
African Party
The new parties sitting in would certainly not of his own appeal to
die Parliament, and lastly, on Mr. Malan's rehte atures were their friendle
not their solutions at the Hereeniging Congress. foes. From these new literatures they must By the path of peaceful development and strive to get the same kind of education which their fathers had found in the old. They should be studied seriously and in the same spirit, especially in Oxford.
not
cooperation, an
and n by the path of division
and violence he concluded, "we seek to create a true South African nation
tion
The Prime Minister later moved a resolu- embodying the principles of his speech And asking the Congress to appeal to all agreeing with such principles to expanded South African Party
Mr. Burton, the Minister of Finance, an eloquent speech in English, strongly supported General timuts, and revealed the fact that only the stato of his health had prevented the late General Botha from making the same appeal as Gens al Smuts had just made.
If they must fall, he said, let them fall in this cause with honour. Bat they would not fall Reuter.
TIRPITZ OUTBURST.
SERMON AGAINST GERMAN
PENITENCE
In Die Grenzbalen Admiral von Tirpitz addresses a manifesto to the rising genera tion of Germany to present a bolder front, to the Entente Powers in the exocation of the terms of the Peace Treaty
'LOCKING" GLASGOW
-HARBOUR.-
DAMMING THE CLYDE.”
There is no sailor man in all the Seven Seas who has lain off the Tail-of-the-Bank waiting until the tide served to take the ship up to Glasgow who will not be interested in a project for damming the
for damming Clyde,
A scheme to this effect has been drawn no and has reached the stage of coming under the consideration of the Clyde Trust, a step which in itself stamps it with an air of practicability,
The proposal is to throw a barrage across the river at Bowling with the object of ensuring för Glasgow Harbour "a per- manent depth water, of about the equi valent of high-tide level at under d
There would be locks in the barrage. Large vessels can get up as far as Bowling." which is near Dumbarton, at any state of von Tirpitz says that the next the fide, and it would be a simple matter to lock them through the barrage into ich will consider it more to their ad- Glasgow Harbour
admira how whether Germany.
change, to destroy, Cenaby completely orThe greatest difference in the level of will consider a milder form of enslavement water above and below the barrage would to be the more profitable policy; Ha in be, it is estimated no more than 10-feet! veigh against the method
of empty and this at dead low tide. At high tide, which did more harm than good with the lock gates open, the vessels He Prosto is the causes of the situation in would pass stranght through the open lock which Germany finds itself are to be sought
and
in
the
revolutie
the
in the admission that wrong was done to The cost of such an undertaking would Belgium, in the peace resolution of 1917, be immense, of course, and as yet ne
of 1918. event of the automa
figure has been named as an estimate. possible the success of the There are objections to the scheme, too. result of that crimes complained that coasting and river Gerusnyad to accept any terms steamers would be delayed at the locks, Enteste liked to impose va vin guilty of and shipbuilding firms object that their
If the Germans had not been guilty these lapses from the path of integrity and ships would have to be reset farther bonour President Wilson would not have up the banking sound yet, been able to make such Armistice terms, the On the opposite side of the account is Peace of Versailles would not have been posset the fact that vessels in harbour could sible, and aft Lloyd George would not have be moved at any time and that the strain been able to bellow to the German Chan on quay walls, many of which have col cellor as though, be wore a shon black. lapsed, would be lessened.NPAN
"goes "on":" to compare the treatment of The enterprising port of Greenock France by Germany after the war of 1870 with situats at the mouth of the Clyde, has a treatment of Germany by the Allies. If scheme on hand which may" scotch the non fulfilment of the lunatic peace terms is to be followed by occupation of farther barrage proposal, however, M tracts of Germany, the country had better. The harbour authorities are making, a eyes When bid for the Atlantic liner, trade, and 1 national anity in restored, Germany all tentative negotiations with a big shipping break the chains of slavery like glass, and a company can be carried to fruition they will fall the mission of are prepared to construct a deep water generation Deulechtum of which the present is not worthy berth to carry two large-liners. But he himself does not expect to live to To do this Princes, Pier would he see the sun rise on the German horizon extended 1,200 feet, and the liners could Chaser EdIt will not come until Germany finds her then come alongside and disembark their
lost honour. This only will: the generation be able to rise and rid itwell of passengers direct
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