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War Waste
THE deplorable wastefulness of war is painfully exemplified
by what has taken place in China since the beginning of this year.
In the last seven or eight years hundreds of miles
Soldier Statesman
The Man who brought
of motor roads were completed Into the War Yesterday
in Ilunan and Kiangsi, linkinur
the principal towns. It was a work of very great difficulty and labour. Thousands of bridges and culverts had to be built, and in hilly regions the truck had to be hewn mat of the solid rock.
This made an enormous change for the better in the social and economie life of the people. But it had other and unforeseen results. This net- work of roads enabled the Japanese to make rapid advance on towns evacuated by Chinese troops and civilians.
To prevent this the Chinese have resolved to destroy utterly what they had accomplished at
such cost.
A correspondent of the Times tells how thoroughly this act of sacrifice has been carried out. He says that these roads, cover-
IMPROPAGANDA
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South Africa
-Fa world federation. of determination in pushing him- States could be brought into self through Cambridge with -existence to-morrow, there the aid of a scholarship and are a good many people who borrowed money. He intended would vote for General Smuts to become a lawyer, and, with
this object in view, he wasTM as the best possible president.
scarcely even tempted by plea-
He has that balance of gifts sure. that helps to ensure both sanity and order. He combines moral idealisni
To the present day, he does not smoke or drink or play cards. He has always disliked dancing and games and "girls ns girls." He cares nothing for
pictures or music. He does not
with hard practical sense. He is a fearless fighter, with a genius fer compromise. at the auspicious moment. He is a believer in liberty and mind how he cats or lives. "He disciplinarian. And he has a likes to be uncomfortable." versatile brain that seems cap- able of mastering any problem to which it applies itself.
At the same time, his asceli. cism was never that of a man bent at all costs upon worldly
He loved books I doubt, however, whether success. the mass of Englishmen have especially poetry, such as that of more than a vague knowledge Whitman, which seemed to give
life a meaning and purpose. of the personality and career of this extraordinary mani. To most of them the facts related wrote a book on Whitman which in Mrs. Sarah Gertrude Millin's
While at Cambridge, indeed, he'
was rejected-with compliments and Kant's "Critique of Pure of 50, he came to Paris during ing an area the size of England biography, "General Smuts," by George Meredith, then Reason" in his saddle-bag.
and Wales, have been entirely destroyed. Thousands of men are working to make rebuilding impossible. Every bridge and culvert has been torn down or wide
exciting freshness of news. published recently, will have the
"reading" for Chapman and Hall.
The present volume of Mrs. Returning to South Africa, he Millin's biography brings the
was drawn to Cecil Rhodes as a
war
I am
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the peace negotiations. General. Smuts would agree with her:
"The misery after the Boer worker for unity between the story of General Smuts down War was nothing to it," he says. Dutch and the English. Shacked only to the day in 1917 on which "It was a break' in one's own life, Comparatively few
by the Jameson Raid, however, Mr. Lloyd George invited him to but not in the whole world. Paris people even know that the Smuts who he joined the Transvaal Bar and join the War Cabinet. But by showed me the crack in life it-- blown up. Deep and
became State Attorney under that time he had already proved self. It changed. me. trenches have been dug at inter- was afterwards to fight for the Kruger. Even so, he did all in himself the great fighter and softer man than I used to be.
Boers against the British was his power to prevent vals of a hundred yards. Even
be- the great peacemaker that the Whether for better or for worse, I don't know. I was hard as a the old paths through the rice born a British subject in the tween the Dutch and the English, world knows.
A feeble When compromise proved im-
young man-hard and confident fields and over the mountain Cape of Good Hope.
a new He had helped to make peace and successful." child, he was net expected to possible, he entered on passes have been obliterated. On live long, and did not learn to career and ultimately became a with the English at the right
leader in guerrilla warfare com- moment, and to preserve that It is the softer, more human low-lying land the way has been read or write till he was 12
parable in some
respects with peace by persuading the Liberal post-war Smuts that a large ploughed and flooded, and is years old. He remained "pale Lawrence of Arabia.
Cabinet to restore freedom to part of the civilised world has already planted with rice. It and weedy" till he became a
South Africa, He had faced come to trust and honour- That was the period of his rebellion and
at the patriot who believes that revolution would be the work of a few soldier in the war, but, to com-
life, he declares, in which he
indifferent home
alike to "civilisation is one body, and the greatest hours to break up the narrow pensate for this, he possessed took.
"boyish" "terrific" energy, which was antisfaction. He found that he wisdom was as remarkable as another." It Is true that Mrs.
calumny and danger. And his wo are all members one tracks that remain and leave manifest even in his school days. had "no bodily fear." He was his courage. Speaking of the Millin, in her brilliant and
This was shown in the Inst temporarily indifferent to death of flooded valleys knee-deep in week of his last term at school self but for others. "The men
and wounds, not only for him rebellion of 1914 he said: "Was scrupulously faithful narrative, not the rebellion of 1914 quite claims that he was always "a We under natural negotiator,. a' bellover when, knowing no Greck, he who were affected by the dead understandable?
But it is only Much has been told in history
"On wards, "were the neurotica." with leniency." of the heroism of hard-pressed pass his matriculation.
Smuts has had an opportunity of applying his genius in this nations flooding their country Monday he took up his Greck
sphere to problems on the solu- to impede the advance of in-grammar.
Lion of which depend the safety vaders. But surely nothing on violently for six days and then
however, and happiness of mankind. And he knew it by heart, the whole so extensive a scale na this in book-declensions, conjugations, forgettable picture of this tat- would modestly disclaim any to-day, when he addresses the an ideal world, it is as one of the wisest China. It tells more than many irregular verbs and all." As a tered General, invading Cape Praise of himself as battles of the determination of result of this and similar ex- Colony with his tiny forces, leader during those years and and most magnanimous of its
eluding the army of a great the years in which he fought fallible inhabitants. THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. the Chinese people to preserve ploits, he came out first in the Empirea soldier at ones on the Germans in East Africa. He
their integrity and freedom at examination.
the offensive and on the run, had "hungry, angry eyes," Mrs. 3924 Lany cost.
He showed the same spirit of carrying a Greek Testament Millin declares, till, at the age
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since the War that General
He read it
Mrs. Millin gives us an
Un-
General Smuts,
* Faber and Faber. 188.