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The Mui-Tsai Question.

Sir."Let each family look after its own affairs and take no notice of the feast on the neigh. pour's roul" is an old saying that commands great respect amongst our Chinese friends. At the same time, the respect shown to this counsel ni non-interference or Towers paire is also responsible for the weak sense of public duty ruaniless here. And the greatest -neas to the us videti is this bliad idbetence to a proverb whereby aly an infaitesimal portion of her tongs is dragged into the light of shay.

In reading carefully the evidence

the cruelty case" in which the': mistress was sentenced to three;

hard Isbour by Nr Lindsell for burning her wai-fini with lighted tasiehsticks, the :bought cecurs

not been for the questionable end- fuci of the mistress with ber tismissed houseboy, the brother-

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tortured tarkened kitchen and behind closed Jones through to fault of her own And simply because of this, that British law in this Colony permits her parents to look upon ber að s convertible asset by countenancing **prmentation enrds," "ginger and vinegar money, milk money”, etc.-instruments by which the

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SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 3, 1921,

A "PILLAR OF THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH

GENERAL SMUTS.

South African Premier Counsels Ireland to Accept Dominion Status.

CAREER OF ONE-TIME ANTAGONIST OF BRITAIN.

eclightened Chinese as to British Justice-respected through. cut the world has to say to this degraceful state of affairs in this part of the British Empire?

To my mind, as mai-tsal-keeping san uld practice, the master of

vital is ont, becessarily a sinner and is to-day Premier of a leading" He is known as a tireless work- and a paterfamilia without a muis British Colony-General Janer. From morning to night, he tai is not necessarily a saint. But Christian Smuts. The South wades through stacks of official it canus be denied that besp African Premier counsels Ireland documents, confiential dis service" is the mola motive under to accept Dominion status, and patches and reports. He rarely Ising sne purchase of these girls in believes that as a friendly mem. simiet every transaction. To give ber of the British Commonwealth money to ode in distress with one there is a great feature for that band and to take

distressed country. He has told the Irish frankly that he com- mitted the

11 Szhting against Britain in

the South African war.

The Irish rezatiations have he has given to his country at brought still further into promi- the service he can, he will retire peace the man who twenty years to the quiet of bis estate, he tells

80 was fighting against Britain friends.

or

awar one's

daughter with the other band, is on charits-put Charity o rack if you will. The mate depicted by a Chinese member

His experience in that conflic of the Legislative Couceit is the property of the wealthy clase enables him in understand the sad is in the minority. The avez Irish revolutionists. And he is viewpoint of De Valera and the "garden variety” mui-task, that of the so called middle or qually able to understand the lower classes and predominates newpoint of Mr. Lloyd George muitaideo. The lot of the avera

And those who want to keep the ge mai-laai is unthinkable: and she

British empire intact i always liable to receive that in- human treatment for which the Magistrate justly imposed a BEG trace of imprisonment.

takes a holiday.

General Smuts dislikes recep tions and other functions & trait shared by Mrs Smuts, a pläin Dutch housewife. Wives of highl British dignitaries in South Africa never can be seen to find Mrs. Smuts at home.

General Smuts has a wide range of information and & firm at ease in discussing American grasp of world problem. He is

constitutional government and classical Greek literature, the Upper Silesian question and thei latest methods of intensive farm-t

pg.

Since the defeat of the Boers, General Sunutahas been a staunch The South African statesmen supporter of the British, and often is comparatively a young man. declares that with the exception ¡tle's 52. He was born on a farm In fiew of these facts and occur of his own country, South Africa, within 50 miles of Cape Town, reores that must shock all that he loves the British Empire more South Africa. have a sense to be shocked, 1

than anythingbise in the world. Until young Smuts was 12, his think it bigh time

Tha's why people said that he only teacher were fowls and for the Goverment to study closely this is the moan logical intermediars cattle ife spent the days herd- YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO BE WITHOUT THEM. burning question affecting thus to settle the wrangle between ing geese, cows, sheepend horses anda of defenceless children under will not accept sincere advice, the he learned to prepare his own Britain and Irelan If Ireland On the big South African fatm the British dag and to find out fault is not General Smuta."

belber it had been

ineals over an open camp fire. advised in the past. Yours etc.,

correctly

The General's first big political At the age of 12 he started his COPARATIx.

achievement was when he helped elementary

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to cement together the various finished, he attended Victoria South African states into the College. Schellenbosch. South Union of South Africe in 1909, Africa. He graduated with a Then, fter the World War, he scholarship which permitted him assisted in compiling the pristo enter Caubridge University, ciples that are the foundation of England.

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His Early Failure. At Cambridge he took the returned Cape Town to start legal highest honours in law and

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Following the above game, the League of Nations was offered to United Athletic and Club Lusitano him. Ele declined. played the best game in the League With equal ease. General to date.

Smuts can hoe a garden, try a and spent his spare time writing] After 3 minutes play. Fiach lawsuit, cook a meal, command for both the English and Dutch opened the score for the United an army, tend cattle, frame a South African newspapers. with a splendid shot and and treaty..play with children, read before ball time, Lusitano scored. Greek literature in the original. Attorney

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The Boer wat broke out. Smuts In South Africa General Smuts entered the Boer service and affectionately called "Jannie." fough: bitteris agains: the British.

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Before the war ended he was ziven supreme command of the Though of Dutch birth, he republican forces. icks the heaviness of tempera- After the British trumpb hej ment and scoldness thas characteristic of the Teuton. He flung bimself ato British service are quietly accepted British rule and of light mperament, witty, as, enthusiastically as he had intellectual, a little cynical.

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of the British empire.

He dresses plainly. When

In the World War he drove the Germans from Africa.

Regarding Ireland, General

P. W. L. b. pt. going about Laidon, he wears Smote says:

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Ireland is the case of a sick

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