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war is painfully exemplified

by what han taken place in China since the beginning of

this year.

Soldier Statesman

IMPROPAGANDA

-Strube in the “Daily Express".

In the last seven or The Man who brought South Africa

eight years hundreds of miles

of mator roads were completed Into the War Yesterday

in Hann and Kiangsi. linking

the principal towns. It was a work of very great difficulty and Inbour. Thousands of bridgen and culverts had to be built, and

- world federation of determination in pushing him- States could be brought into self through Cambridge with Lexistence to-morrow, there the aid of a scholarship and He intended are a good many people who borrowed money.

in hilly regions the track had to would vote for General Smuts to become a lawyer, and, with

as the best, possible president.

this object in view, he was scarcely even tempted by plea-

be hewn out of the solid rock.

This marie an enormous He has that balance of gifts sure. change for the better in the that helps to ensure both sanity. social and economic life of the and order. He combines moral people. But it had other and idealism with hard practical cards. He has always disliked unforeseen results. This net-seuse. He is a fearless fighter, dancing and games and "girls

with a genius for compromise" work of roads enabled the

at the auspicious moment. He Japanese to make rapid advance is a believer in liberty and a on towns evacuated by Chinese disciplinarian. And he has troops and civilians.

versatile brain that seems cap.

To the present day, he does not smoke or drink or play

as girls." He cares nothing for pictures or music. He does not mind how he eats or lives. "He likes to be uncomfortable."

At the same time, his asceti-

To prevent this the Chinesable of mastering any problem cism was never that of a man

have resolved to destroy utterly

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While at Cambridge, indeed, he wrote a book on Whitman which

bent at all costs upon worldly I doubt, however, whether success. He loved books 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. A correspondent of the Times | of the personality and career of tells how thoroughly this act of this extraordinary man. To sacrifice has been carried out. most of them the facts related He says that these roads, cover-in Mra. Sarah Gertrude Millin's 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. the peace negotiations. General "reading" for Chapman and Hall.

Smuts would agree with her: and Wales, have been entirely published recently, will have the

Returning to South Africa, e Millin's biography brings the The present volume of Mrs. destroyed. Thousands of men

was drawn to Cecil Rhodes as n

"The misery after the Boar

are working to make rebuilding

worker for unity between the story of General Smuts down War was nothing to it," he says, impossible. Every bridge and

Dutch and the English. Shocked only to the day in 1917 on which "It was a break in one's own life, calvert has been torn down or Comparatively few

by the Jameson Raid, however, Mr. Lloyd George invited him to but not in the whole world. Paris blown up. Deep and wide even know that the Smuts who joined the Transvaal Bar and join the War Cabinet. But by showed me the crack in life it- became State Attorney under that time he had already proved self. It changed me. I am a 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. vals of a hundred yards. Even Boers against the British was his power to prevent war

be the great peacemaker that the Whether for better or for worse, the old paths through the rice born a British subject in the tween the Dutch and the English. worden

I don't know. I was hard as a A feeble When compromise proved im- fields and over the mountain Cape of Good Hope.

young man-hard and confident child, he was not expected to possible, he entered on a new He had helped to make peace and successful.” passes have been obliterated. On live long, and did not learn to career and ultimately became a with the English at the right low-lying land the way has been read or write till he was

leader in guerrilla warfare com- moment, and to preserve that It is the softer, more human ploughed and flooded, and is years old. He remained "pale Lawrence of Arabia.

parable in some respects with peace by persuading the Liberal post-war Smuts that a large 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 would be the work of a few soldier' in the war, but, to com- life, he declares, in which he

That was the period of his rebellion and revolution at the patriot who believes that hours to break up the narrow pensate for this, he possessed took the greatest

home indifferent alike to "civilisation is ono body, trucks that remain and leave "terrific energy, which was antisfaction. He found that he calumny and danger. And his we are, all members one of manifest even in his school days, had "no bodily fear." He was his courage. Speaking of the Millin, in her brilliant and wisdom was as remarkable as another." It is true that Mrs. the whole countryside a series of flooded valleys knee-deep in

This was shown in the last temporarily indifferent to death week of his last term at school and wounds, not only for him rebellion of 1914 he said: "Was scrupulously faithful narrative, mud.

self but for others. "The men

not the rebellion of 1914 quito claims that he was always " when, knowing no Greek, he who were affected by the dead understandable? We under- natural negotiator, a bellever But it is only Much has been told in history had to learn enough Greek to and wounded," he said after stood it and treated the rebels in conference."

since the War that General of the heroism of hard-pressed pass his matriculation. "On wards, "were the neurotics." with leniency."

Smuts has had an opportunity: nations flooding their country Monday he took up his Greek

of applying his genius in this Не read it to Impede the advance of in-grammar.

sphere to problems on the solu tion of which depend the safety vaders. But surely nothing on violently for six days and then

he knew it by heart, the whole Mrs. Millin gives as an

General Smuts, however, and happiness of mankind. And so extensive a scale as this in book-declensions, conjugations, forgettable picture of this tat- would modestly disclaim any to-day, when he addresses the China. It tells more than many irregular verbs and all.". As a

tored General, invading Cape praise of himself as an ideal world, it is as one of the wisest battles of the determination of result of this and similar ex- Colony with his tiny forces, loader during those years and and most magnanimous of its THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. the Chinese people to preserve ploits, he came out first in the eluding the army of a great the years in which he fought falible inhabitants.

Empire a soldier at once, on the Germans in East Africa. He their integrity and freedom at examination.

the offensive and on the rum, had "hungry, angry eyes," Mrs. any cost.

He showed the same spirit of carrying a Greek Testament Millin declares, till, at the age

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