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letter to write
M
R. MALCOLM MACDONALD, the Dominions Secre- tary, is writing a letter to General Hertzog, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.
Mr. MacDonald jun. wins re- Phone 27778/9. gard by his personal charm and earns respect by his cautious competence in politics. Pray that he exercises both in his pre- sent composition.
The
Hongkong Telegraph.
Furray. August 27, 1937.
PROFITEERING
.
For Mr. MacDonald's letter may rank one day among the most important documents ever penned in the history of the Bri- tish Empire.
LAND THE TROUBLE IS ABOUT
Basuto,
REATEST of all Afri- can chiefs was the Mohesh. Tho Boors pressed upon his people. He hired a scribe and wrote to the British. Sir Harry Smith pro- mised him our protection.
But the Home Government were not ready to push so for north. Mohesh's border affrays got him into trouble a few yenra later, and the British arrived not as friends, but foes. Mohesh bent them back, and then sent an envoy after them entreating them to make perce with him.
At last he was heard. His country was put under the Bri- tish flag. But when the Cupe was granted self-government the British connection was broken.
"Silence like the darkness of night has descended on the peo- ple," said Mohesh. The Basutos .broke out into insurrection. The Basuto red flug with the black crocodile on a white ground was raised. They were defeated.
Rhodes went up himself to dis- arm them. He came back and told the Cape Government, "You have tried to put the best boy among the native
races in the "stocks,"
Accepted at last by England, the great chief died.
On his death-bed Mohesh said: "I have become old....I am glad that my people should have been allowed to rest and lie under the large folds of the flag of England before I am no more."
To the Queen he wrote, "My country is your blanket and my people the live in it."
GREYHOUNDS
BUT the Bechuanas, which are some of the best in
to
and General Hertzog has asked
champagne brought Britain to give him a piece of
down King Umbadini of the territory-or rather three pieces
Swazis. In return for these pro- altogether about three times
duets of civilisation he granted the size of this country. Mr.
concession after concession, - There is, apparently, no inten- MacDonald may have to tell him,
deed concessions of concessions. "Dear General, kindly call some their old tribal life. They have tion on the part of the Governother time."
General Hertzog claims that He was glad to have the British become farm labourers, dock la- these are the "further terri- come in and take charge of his ment to attempt the control ofį You need to say such things bourers and mineworkers, the tories" that were promised to hopeless finances, So the third rent and food prices at the tactfully when dealing with black proletariat of the Rand the Union.
Protectorate passed to us. moment. The reason for this General Hertzog and the hard, and the coast belt.
Economically these lands, shrewd part of the Dutch ascen- The farm labourers earn from policy of inaction is stated to liefdeney who now rule at the Cape, Gs. to 10s.
Basutos and Swazis South Africa, are dependent on a week. The gold don't want to go under the South in a belief that the situation will
All the more
so because the miners get 2s. a day, supple African Government. Very hard the Union. To make them still shortly adjust itself. Indien-land in question, the British monted by some social services. they fought to belong to the more so the Union Government
Protectorates of Bechuanaland. They live in compounds. tions are, however, that the
Basutoland, Swaziland, has al-
British. Like the Ulsterman in are offering them £35,000 to im- adjustment may be merely in the realy been promised to the as the New Eldorado can afford, remain under the Union Jack.
The conditions may be as good Ireland, they will kick up hell to prove their soil and their herds. Picturesque Tshekedi, the Re direction of stabilising present
Union Government.
for South Africu really lives Rhodes tried Lo grab gent of the Bamanwato tribe, unusually, heavy Posts unless
largest of the Bechuanas, who IP was in 1907 that Bri- practically on its solguld-But for Bechuanaland. He wanted
tuit, after beating the the wealth that the gold-getting build his railway through it up instated a little time ago, is one was deposed by Britain and re- prompt and effective measures are taken to stop the profiteer-Boers, gave them self-govern. brings, South African farming to the north. He proposed that
would be entirely bankrupt, for his Chartered Company should who views this offer with ment "a risk," said the young ing.
suspicion. If we are to judge from a Winston Churchill, but a glori- the soil of that beautiful, roman- take it over.
tie land reported official statement, theļous risk."
is poor and thirsty. The Bechuana chief tock ship Government want?
"Is it the people that the Union
for the rise in prices, at least so address to the King by both 1909 it was provided that on the
themselves top-hats and frock-Looking south, the people of If ever the bankers should de- coats and called on Mr. Joseph the Protectorates are not tempt- far as one commodity is con-Houses of the Union Parliament cide to leave the gold under the Chamberlain, who sat in the seated. They see there that the Bu- cerned, as being obscure. The further territories might be Rand reefs instead of digging it that Malcolm MacDonald now tive people are subjected to ever-
up in order to rebury it under fills. public, which has to pay, is under transferred to their rule.
increasing disabilities. In the schedule of the Act, the pavements of London und "Joe" was out. They were no delusions in the matter: it however (where the best dyna. New York, then South Africa asked to call again when he came The native franchise, limited believes, and with every justifica-mite is often buried), certain would have to reconstruct her back from holiday. They stay- as it was, has been still further tion, that prices have been put conditions were attached. The life from top to bottom.
ed until the winter, and they in- restricted. The Native Service Meantime, the country elings terviewed him at last. Said
Contract Act imposes heavy up with the deliberate intention principal one wis that the Im-
perial Government at West- to its anchor of gold and exploits Khana, "There is no Government
taxation on the coloured people, - of profiting from present condi-minster should have the right to to the limit its situation as the we can trust as we trust that of driving them by economic pres- tions. What justification there override within twelve months chief custodian of the world's the great Queen. We beg her sure out of their kruals to toll in
the mines.* of its enactment any laws affect- most uneless metal. Still more not to throw us away as if we is for the professed belief in
ing the natives of the transferred men are needed for the mines. were troublesome children who their acquisition of land outside The Native Land Act preventa official circles that the increases territories.
Where can they possibly be will not listen to our mothers' found? In Bechuanaland, Basu- words." are unlikely to be maintained,
They were annexed, That condition can obtain no toland and Swaziland, we cannot imagine. The pro- longer. For by the Statute of
as they desired. fiteer, once he puts on the screw, Westminster, 1932, Great Bri- is not in the habit of relievingtain gave up the right to inter-77; the pressure until he is forced fere in the affairs of all
Dominions. to do so. Thus, so long as the|
· Government considers the reason In the South Africa Act of There are few other industries for England. They bought land?" he asks.
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in the country.
Is it the
the reservations. The Pass Laws compel them to conform to a curfew at night. The colour bar stops them from compeling with even the poorest whites in
"Howls" From the Schoolroom skilled or semi-skilled occupa-
Government remains quiescent, MANY Liberals, and ma- MORGANATIC
"A turally the Socialist
Yet another howler states that
him."
In his
tions.
WHAT are we to do?
the
that the natives themselves should be consulted.
The Bechuanas, Basutos and marriage." liked. This was called the Restora- the Swazis look to Britain with a we may expect to see the level Party, hailed that Act
according to one young how- tion."
pathetic hope that we "will not as aler, is a marriage where the Queen "An involce," wrote a bright pupil, sell them down the river." maintained, if not actually in-charter of liberty, "freeing the cannot have any children unless the "is words that one said inwardly and #DOREENCOREXXX********ADOGRAMKRAASAANKARAGDAKU creased. When all is said and free Dominions from the Im- explain what a lake was, another "is
State lets her." When asked to, not aloud," "Caoutchoue," he added,: perialist control of Britain." Scholar gave this unfortunate den sneeze hat people say when they
We promised done, Hongkong is eight hundred However, the charter of liberty tien, "A lake, sir, is a damned river,"
Union that they should have ad- miles from the war- zone and, might also be a charter of "Estu," we learn from an exam.j "John Balliol was a helpless and ditional territories some time or except to the limited extent to licence, permitting the Dominion paper, "was a chap who wrote fables, useless King because he was born other. Two years ago Mr. J. H. He sold the copyright for a mess of without a backbone in him." Talk-Thomas, then Dominions Secre- which it relies on imports from picase with their natives.
Governments to do what they
pottage." "When some people are of Edward VII, he says "He was ill," states another North China, its supplies from
young scholar, the beat King we ever had, becausey, repeated this pledge though Indeed, the question is now "They often lose their consciences." he hadn't the power of doing what in very vague terms, no date, outside are in no way interrupt-acutely raised: Since the unfe- A bright historian informs us that for The Duke of Marlborough, (1) that the British Parliament and it was all the better and subject to two provisions: ed. It is, in fact, admitted that are removed, how far does the also learn from him that "A lot of which were many."
guards against penal legislation "Wolsey saved his life by dying on
the way from York to London." We fine cher emitting la vice should approve the transfer; (2)
was "A mun of very in respect of certain stable com- original contract hold?
Englishmen were imprisoned in the| modities existing stocks are we
Black Hole of Calcutta with only one to learn, is a man who works in a "A draft-clerk, we are surprised There are 5,600,000 natives little window." in excess of normal. Yet it is under the rule of the Union of
It is safe to say that the Bri- bank, and opens und shuts the door "A leper is a fierce wild animal," for customers." Alse, Edward I had tish Parliament does not approve these very commodities, and South Africa. A good half of is a statement culled from an exam. a son born at Carnarvon Castle, the transfer at this moment. It | others which are freely available, them have broken away from and "A myth is a female numely Edward II, and the remains is certain that the natives would
are still to be seen to this day," which are being made materially
Another piece of nonsense states
"Six animals peculiar to the Arctic overwhelmingly reject it on a dearer to the consumer. Rents the other, but merely in order in the Tower because he could not "are three seals and three bears. A over in such circumstances the that, "Waller Scott was imprisoned regions," writes a promising pupil, plebiscite. If we handed them. of Chinese property are also on that profiteers may feather their pay his debts. He wrote the Waver- lynx," he added, "is a member of repercussions throughout black the upward grade, due
ley Novels while there, but was after the cat family; its skin is spotted Africa would to an nests. The time for action in wards burat alive. He also brought with very sharp eyes."
be terrific and
So are we to tell South Africa's. latter always kept a javelin handy." Premier, in effect, that we can't of refugees from the mainland. which appears to be the Govern-aught the Greeks to get drunk, and lines meet. The poll
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conjunction," Raid another how- suys another, "Brat
where From whatever angle the post-ment attitude; the movement Raigal home kito, er der iki, a la tenen a csias a the poll farrots, and land, Australia, and Canada?
railway trust her to handle her natives, we though we do trust New Zea- tion is viewed, it is clear that the needs to be nipped in the bud. honour of the Virgin Queen,"
"chaplets are small places of wor- community is being forced to pay It is for this reason
It is interesting to learn that "the ship." According to another young I do not envy Mr. Malcolm. that the grizzly bear builds its deu in the' more for the necessities of life public looks to the authorities to lockles where it sits still and grize setul The opposite of evergreen MacDonald's job in writing his.
is nevergreen." zles all day," "Charles 11,"
letter to General Hertzog. bccord- and for accommodation, not by temporise no longer, but to act Ing to one of his young historians, women are pretty and some are tea- It is sad to know that, "Some reason of scarcity of the one or quickly and offectively.
told
the people that they could chers."
Frank Owen drink and gamble and do as they
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played to Saul," might be fatal for us.
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