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SOUTH AFRICAN UNITY. GENERAL BOTHA'S APPEAL.

WARNING TO REPUBLICANS. General Bothe, in a great speech to the South African Party Congress, recently,

WEDNESDAY, JULY 24TH, 1918.

TALES OF THE V. C. LANCE CORPORAL GEORGE WYATT, SRD COLDSTREAM GUARDS.

BY LIEUTENANT J. P. LLOYD.] At dawn on the morning of Monday, the dealt at length wtih the Nationalist Re-24th of August, 1914, the British Army publican propagando.

The Prime Minister reiterated bis gravę warning that a Republic could only be cablished by force of arms. Ils asked why General Hertzog in Parliament had said that he only favoured a Republic in theory, yet at Paarl, when he addressed

AMERICANS IN FRANCE.

GROWING ARMY,

[FROU PEILIP GIRD.]

FRANCE, Monday. The Americans are out here on the roads

DECORATIONS FOR SPECIAL CONSTABLES.

The members of the Metropolitan Special Police to the number of more than 8,000, whose service date back to the

of France thousands of them. We feel ginning of the war were panded re began to march southwards on the first the powar, and spirit of the great nation star. In a leading article on the subject.

still safer now because they are here, and gently and decorated with a five-pointed stage of the retreat from Mons. It was of the Western World are visible kufore the Daily Telegraph says:—“ No one will a day of hard fighting and hard marching our eyes; and we who have seen nearly question that the distinction has been during which, in turn, the first corps on four years of this frightful strife, our wen amply deserved. We are all by this time the right and the second corps on the left, who have fought all that time against Special in the streets that we regard turned to bay and faced the dense masses severe odds, against strength which never him almost as a permanent institution. No-accustomed to the sight of the the students, why did ho incite there of Germany who sought to overwhelinacrifico, against an enemy who in this He has lost bis novelty, but without los

seemed to weaken, however great their young children to a condition of affairs them. Maubeuge was reached that after last phase threw all his weight against the ing any of his usefulness. He is ne which must end in blood and tears 7 noon, but to make a stand there was to British to annihilate us if he could, now integral and necessary a part of the de- Again, at Smithfield, General Hertz invito disaster, so at 7 a.m. on Tuesday realise that ich must destroy for ever stable whose place he is Bling. And thus

there

is behind as a vast fresh fences of London as the regular con- sng a different tunc, admitting that on morning the march was resumed in to fighting for ones of world-mastery: he has come to be taken for granted, with`

direction of Le Cateau.

the German

With or without another long spell of the result that people are apt to forget strife, perhaps not without many

the

The tro carps passed, one on each side of the great forest of Mormal, through smiling, villages which stood amongst great battles, in which American soldiers the extent of the sacrifice which he has orchards laden with iruit. But fear nud

will fight alongside our men and so cheerfully made. For the call on his been that way before them, and the fields French, these new comrades of ours are the war has light, has grown heavier aa were empty, and the houses barred ness in favour of those who believe in the slight burden on men in middle life to

to help to settle this dreadful busi proceeded.

It is no against the coming of the foc. All day liberties of Europe and in human undertake regular police duty of four beneath a pitiless sun. By the ovening brutality and tear. For a long time after ordinary work. Many London Specials they tramped along roads deep in dust society governed by other powers than hours at a stretch in addition to their the Second Corps had reached Le Cateau, the entry of the United Stater into the re business mon in responsible positions, hatted at Maroilles and Landrecies, and and from afar, what help was being pro and who have found it necessary to work while the two divisions of the First Corps war most of us out here knew only diraly whose staffs have been steadily depleted the weary men lay down to sleep behind rared for us, and as the months passed at an ever-increasing pressure. For them their outpost lines. But there was to be our men fought and fought and the to turn out on police duty at inconven little sleep for any of them that night sight of an American battalion, just one fent hours, stolen from leisure or sleep, A little after 9 o'clock there sud-

battalion, would have been A denly on the right of the line arbite spre eyes, it scomed that perhaps thus war has often been a hard trial, and many a of musketry followed by the deeper voices could be seen on the battlefields of France would finish before their first division

Special must have been sorely tempted nt times to throw it all up in utter weari- of heavy guns. The Germans were ad-

Then, at last, we heard that some of ness, and send round to headquarters the vancing in force on Maroilles and Land-them were with the French, actually in conventional excuses for non attendance. The German 9th Corps and pressed with our own eyes some men in khaki, is little that is sustaining and ex- the line and doing wes; and then we saw There is nothing that is glorious, there burd on the heels of the British right. with stiff collars, unlike ours, and canvas hilarating in the Special's duty of They had come that day through the shady gaiters and slouch hats, and we said, "By patrolling the street in the small hours from the eyes of our eagle-oyed airmen met quiet fellows in the United States reaches its highest pitch of unpleasant- glades of the forest of Mormal, screened love, those are Americans." Presently we of the morning when everything They formed up on the outskirts of the uniform, who sat listening to the casual

when there is no prospect wood, and surged forward in dense ing penetrating questions, en want-

conversation of English officers and ask and no columns to the attack, confident that theying to know things. They were the out

and no horizon and nothing is to be done would gain an easy victory over the tired posts of the American army-engineers,

save to keep on the move, or protect some British soldiers.

medical offers, staff officers, getting first look at the stupendous problem which from our experience, to avoid our early now confronted them, anxious to learn mistakes, to start higher up than the beginning which was ours, in blood and travail.

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fixed point from the improbable machina tions of an unknown but possible enemy. who has the good sense to be quietly Special has been a sterling school of asleep in his bed. The life of a self-disciplina to many a middle-aged Londoner since August, 1914..

by the aid of the two sections of the poplo could a Republic be attain ed, The whole propaganda, General totha declared, was nothing but an at- tempt to gain votes. Ho anid that Gen cral Hertzog and his friends had keen pla lag with fire, and General Herzog hud now called a halt. General Botha emphasised that after the Boer War they nearly despaired, in their deep Borrow and mourning; but to-day could they be regarded as an op- pressed nation? In everything they could sto God's band. A great and contented South Africa had been established. (Cheers.) Their Union was born out of the brain of the Afrikander, not the Englishman. To talk of South Africa as an oppressed nation was nonscase, and sbowed great ignorance. There must be an end to all talk of raising commanders. They could not allow that kind of thing to go on. General Botha appealed to his followers not to wait until it should be necessary for the Government to proclaim martial law in their distrets. They must all got this kind of thik stopped, othər- The Germans certainly had the advan- wise the greatest danger threatened South tage of surprise Africa The Premier then made a solemn threatened all day, now fell in torrents The rain which had appeal for reunion, and declared that out of a black sky. Storm and darkness should try to bring it about, and voiled the approach of the Germans, and although such a resolution last year only the British outpost line was swept away got a response from the Cape branch of faimost before it had time to give the The Nationalists he was pleased to day as the town of Landrectes itself and found the enormously modest, us

MODEST SOLDIERS, the spread of the idea of reunion amongst the 4th Brigade of the 2nd Division rush-

Ict sonte of these advance guards, the people themselves. Cheers.) He M:

men face to face with a local clinique dicted that a time would come when they to their arms to find the Germans would accept the hand of brotherhood. already upon them. Pouring in full flood men who had learnt it.by painful lessons. to which they were strange, among other Nevertheless, he would not try to gain down the narrow streets.

I found them also very keen and alert Nationalist votes in the dark, Reunion

Then followed a confused and bitter and businesslike, quick to see the essential could only be successful if they stood by struggle, with only the glare from burn truth of things, taking it all seriously, their principles and did what they ing houses to distinguish friend from making mental notes at great speed, yet This Year thought honest and just by South Africa. foc, A colunin of Germans which swarm-with an easy way that made them good Last Year Some people urged the South Africaned down the main street was swept with comrades at the mess table and with a inert Que Party to embody Republican propaganda storm of machine-gun fire from the sense of humour refreshing in its incisive- in its programme General Bothe held front and from the houses on either side,

They

explained that their that they should stand by the Constitu and was compelled to withdraw. EveryThey asked us not to be in too much of tion which was their Magna Charta, bory where the enemy tried to smash his way

along, and we believed tha out of the wishes of the two sections of through the defences, but everywhere they we'll wait for you. They wanted us to the population. He felt convinced. found the British ready for him now.

hurry, and we said: “ That's All right said, that they would never get a majority No British soldier ever fought moreent to understand, that the organisation understand, and we were not too impati of both the English and Dutch sections bravely than did those four battalions involved in the training and equipping in favour of a Republic.

ENGLAND THEIR FRIEND

that night in Landrecies. And, perhaps, and transport of a great army with a line Speaking on the Nationalist attitude-no braver thing was done than that which of communications 3,000 miles long-was

returned soldiers, General on the Victoria Cross for Lance Corplut child's Botha affirmed that it was a matter of George Wyatt of the 3rd Coldstream wonths. Pay or the work of n pride to them that they had been soldiers Guards. He was one of a party which sath of last year I met a crowd of Ameri In the Cambrai £ghting on November in the past. He greatly appreciated the held a post at some cross roads on the can engineers, who were quick to get into fact that South Africans had gone to fight outskirts of the town. There were farin action when they were in reach of it. overseas, because they were fighting for buildings on cach side of them, and on They were not supposed to be fighting the liberty and freedom of South Africa.

their left was a road which it was in-net He had said there must be no compulsion possible to command owing to the walls the battle lines suddenly closed about in Gold in recognition of the gallantry men, but they made themselves so when The King has awarded the Albert Medal and he was proud of the men who had of the farm. The Germans kept up anthem and shells fell round their engines of Corperal James Mc Carthy, 1st Batta volunteered, for whom everything would be done. He assorted that the intense fire down the road into the farm and trucks and Germans started sniping on Royal Irish Regiment, in saving life

possible Calipublic. The band diary bombs into it. In spite of the rain car rifles and took part in counter-attacks. On January 24th, 1918, in Palestine yard on the right, and also threw incen- at close range. They borrowed some of establish

in January last at the cost of his own propagandists based their action on the statement of the straw in the yard was soon blazing with our guards Others, surrounded by Corporal MeCartley was cleaning Lloyd George that he deprecated what furiously.

the enemy, fought their way through, and grenades in the quarters, when the fuse England had done to South Africa in It seemed impossible to save the build laughed at this queer adventure after of one became ignited. He carried it out the Boer War, but he said that after things, but Lance Corporal Wyatt offered to wards, and were pleased because our men to throw it into a infe place, but, finding was England had given Buuth Africa inake the attempt. Leaving his place in

a number of men standing around, he hundred thousand of you lation.

He clasped the grenade in both bands and The first hundred thousand

where nothing to fear.

without injuring his comrades.

The grenade xploded, killing Corporal McCarthy. conrades from serious injury. who by his devoted courage saved his

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i every opportunity to work out her two the line, le dushed across the road, under with Well done, old sports; we could derealised that he could not throw it any-

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difference. There were some who he held it close to his side-

that the tramp of American batta roads of France, and those were German lions would never be heard along the afficers and men. I remember when the Vimy Ridge was taken by the Canadians

Scottish in April of last year a Ger out of Canadian journalists, lawyers, and man officer was the Americans coming into the war

business men, and Australian school- with a group of masters, architects, and farmers What do you think about they aske

Their Higher Command so far is, of

blaw to us," he said, frankly,

The officer shrugged his core me up largely of professional and smiled. It is

soldiers, who studied at West Point, and

marines will see to that. We got tion which includes the heat business, mors have handled troops in the field long be will never get across here. Our sub

but the fore this war, but bey form the intel across all right," said the Canadians, and

lectual nucleus of an enormous organisa this answer seemed to make their prisoner brains of the United States. thoughtful.

From England there was hail of bullets, into the yard, Sil army, by jove! That would make a lot friend and help to England

was their honetted plainly against the burning Entning to General Hertzog's Smith pile, it semed that he would certainly field speech, the Premier said it was abwenty-five yards away, Yet, with death be killed, for the Germans were only solutely untrue that the British Parlia ment could pass a conscription law for whistling, all around him, he succeeded South Africa South Africa would never in extinguishing the flames, and after talente such a measure. The only body wards returned to the post. That he did that could pass Inws for South Africa thig ones, and escaped death, was wonder- was the South African Parliament. Allful. Yet, when the need came a second

Government withdraw the South African Constitution better than he, he was still anxious to tv compulsion, but who would dream of go and he went, and once more he beat such a astop? As to the establishment of an Imperial Government and Imperial comrades anburt Thanks to his gallant out the blaze, and again came back to his Parliament for South Africa, General action the Coldstream were able to hold Botha asked who would favour such a the Germans at bay. If the farm build Padiament, in which they would naturalings had giught fire they could have done ly be in the rainority regarding the ques nothing che but retreat, tion of conscription. He emphasised that About midnight the firing began to die he sould never agree to a conscriptionway along the front from Landrecies to measure in South Africa to force

to to the front

Maroilles. The attack had failed, and people should not stand in the way of others or prevent the tried to match a brief rest in the few recruiting of men to fight for the liberty hours of darkness that remained to them. ta of the world. If Germany came to South At dawn they fell in once more, and as Africa they might share the lot of Rou they marched southwards they heard mania or the Ukraine. South Africa was behind them the aminous thunder of ar a country in which they all could live tillery. Smith-Dorrien and the Second together.

All must work for the estab Corps were fighting their heroic action at and lishment of a great South African people. Le Cateau. in which the two sections stood on a foot. ing of abslute equality, trust, confidence, and mutual goodwill.

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CABLE CLASSES, AND TYPES.

THE ENEMY ALARMED.

In the ranks there are men of all classes himself up with the hope that the Amer France who graduated at Harvard, and Yet for a long time the enemy buoyed and types. There are private soldiers in the American divisions now here in cans would never get arrost. Now a bis others who were great employers of labour army of them is across here with the

or the sons of employers, and I am talit

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about the roads and in villages bebinding by in a Rolls-Royce car with a have seen the Americans troops was not unusual to see one of them driv. the linez training with some of our units to fearaing the

respectful salute to an officer who walke our officers, working out their own ideas with superior education or special know

methods from some of

In course of training the men adopting anything that is good in ledge will undoubtedly be picked out and or the French, and I am cer- given colomissions. Indeed, that is tain that the United States armies will already being done, and otherwise it be a most formidable

in

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General Botha also dwelt on the grave harn done to the country's interest by English and Dutch extremists. He was

A captured German non-commissioned pleased to say however, that a number of officer throws fresh light upon the great selves, are men who have led outdoor lives, afternoon with the officers of one of the

of them, like the Canadians them- spent an

or two of yeste

yesterday leading English South African papers disappointment, which the Germans us who have been their own masters of life had preached a spirit of toleration, co

American divisions,

and wa

was presented to operation, and forbearance, but others, tained in their unsuccessful attack upon in open country and have kept end up the Chief of Staff of the division, who particularly one in Natal, bag created the Belgian front on April 17th fast among other Aturdy and

impressed me very much, by his independent ated He says that the operation was designed best soldiers, and there more Nationalists than any other paper

men. That is the raw material of the simplicity of thought and speech, and by

rathy from the Empire. On the other movement, and so certain was the High

All these officers are without hand, there was an element cansing bitter Command of its success that the Kaur townships of the United States, have daily toll of its ordinary routine, he

The men from the cities and all

Want this war. They know the the great rcsa and ill-feeling among the English came to the Yser to witness the battle, quality that is got less good. They have

that must be paid for victory, the population. He was gratified, however, having in his pocket the "Eichenlaub by the moderation and tolerance of his (oak garland), which is the most high understanding, a Dysonal, nonend much to guffer: They pay a high tribute

an alertness of mind, a quickness of

and skill of the chuiny They their men bave much to learn, suð flowers, who were thereby rendering a German decoration to the Order Pour of spirit, which only needs training great service to their country. There was le Mèrite. This he designed to bestowerience to convert into the also a strong element among the English

of praise to our wes, who through these "highest

have faced the stress and starm

with

It

Years

section standing for moderation, and upon the general commanding the First erly instincts. And they start treat of way a very patient courage. But was growing daily. The Boer War han Landwehr Division, who directed them and men start fresh without they are confident that before very long In order to achieve the great destinu Kaiser motored away from the region of antinods, the red-tape of the mind. pass the test that has been set them by

caused both sections to respect each other whole attack. But when presently hering traditions, old-fashioned which they hoped for, General Botha add the Yeer with a black frown upon hin is likely that they will produce good rap ed in conclusion, they must all units face the Eichenlaub still tinkled in his, tains of men, as they have been produced together. Reuter.

pocket.

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

the American divisions in France will

those of France and England, and there is not a man among us here who does not share that confidence to the uttermost