CO129-590-23 Situation in Hong Kong 25-4-1905 - 25-4-1905 — Page 169

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..c. 1912.

ADD SMUTS TWO this year would bring about many tests for southafrica and world prime minister said but he had no doubt about final outcome f'stp it still his policy to use noneuropeans in army as noncombatants and he saw no reason to depart from it fstp certain members of assembly had said if country was in danger government should make use of every means to meet situation and that natives and coloured population should also used fstp that was argument used and no fault could found with it especially where there was section of european peoples who said quote let japanese come it fault of general smuts unquoto fetp more

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ADD SMUTS THREE general continued quote before japanese take this country eye will see to it that every coloured person and every native that can armed will be armed unquote fstp if southafrica were attacked by yellow race nativos and coloured peoples would be used to defend country well as every european fstp but this unnecessary today end alinea

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01.09.

MOSCOW soviet supplementary communique reports several more villages recaptured by timoshenkos army which includes kharkov hyphen donetz sectors fstp germans lost sixfivezero men killed besides much war material including eleven

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