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War Waste

THE deplorable wastefulness of

war is painfully exemplified

by what has 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 motor roads were completed Into the War Yesterday

in Hunan and Kiangsi, linking

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

21 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.

to become a lawyer, and, with

in hilly regions the track had to would vote for General Smuts this object in view, he

as the best possible president,

be hewn out of the solid rock.

This made An enormouA change for the better in the social and economie life of the people. But it had other and unforeseen results. This net- work of

the

roads enabled

Japanese to make rapid advance on towns evacuated by Chinese troops and civilians,

To prevent this the Chinese

have resolved to destroy utterly

what they had accomplished at

such cost.

was

scarcely even tempted by plen-

He has that balance of gifts sure. that helps to ensure both sanity

To the present day, he does and order. He combines moral

not smoke or drink or play idealism with hard practical

cards. He has always disliked sense. He is a fearless fighter,

dancing and games and "girls with a genius for compromise

as girls." He cares nothing for at the auspicious moment. He pictures or music. He does not is a believer in liberty and a mind how he eats or lives. "He disciplinarian. And he has likes to be uncomfortable,” versatile brain that seems cap-

At the same time, his asceti-

able of mastering any problem cism was never that of a man

to which it applies itself.

bent at all costs upon worldly

loved books-

I doubt, however, whether success. He 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. of the personality and career of this extraordinary man.

To

While at Cambridge, indeed, he

A correspondent of the Times tells how thoroughly this act of sacrifice has been carried out. most of them the facts related wrote a book on Whitman which in Mrs. Sarah Gertrude Millin's biography, "General Smuts," published recently, will have the

He says that these roads, cover-

exciting freshness of news,

was rejected-with compliments and Kant's "Critique of Pure of 50, he came to Paris during

by George Meredith, then Reason" in his saddle-bag.

a new

That was the period of his

the peace negotiations. General ing an area the size of England

"reading" for Chapman and Hall.

Smuts would agree with her: The present volume of Mrs. and Wales, have been entirely

Returning to South Africa, e Millin's biography brings the

"The misery after the Boer destroyed. Thousands of men

was drawn to Cecil Rhodes as a are working to make rebuilding

worker for unity between the story of General Smuts down War was nothing to it," he says. Dutch and the English. Shocked only to the day in 1917 on which "It was a break in one's own life, impossible. Every bridge and

by the Jameson Rald, however, Mr. Lloyd George invited him to but not in the whole world. Paris Comparatively few people culvert has been torn down or

he joined the Transvaal Bar and join the War Cabinet. But by showed me the crack in life it- blown

Deep and up.

wide even know that the Smuts who 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, I don't know. I was hard as a the old paths through the rice born a British subject in the tween the Dutch and the English. world know.

A feeble When compromise proved im-

young man-hard and confident fields and over the mountain Cape of Good Hope:

He had helped to make peace and successful.” child, he was not expected to possible, he entered on passes have been obliterated. On live long, and did not learn to career and ultimately became a with the English at the right

leader in guerrilla warfare com- moment, and to preserve that It is the softer, moro huMAN low-lying land the way has been rend or write till he was 12

parable in some respects with peace by persuading the Liberal post-war Smuts that a large ploughed and flooded, and is years old. He remained "pale Lawrence of Arabia.

Cabinet to restore freedom to part of the civilised world has South Africa.

to trust and honour- He had faced come already planted with rice. It and weedy" till he became a

rebellion and revolution at the patriot who believes that would be the work of a few soldier in the war, but, to com

life, he declares, in which he home indifferent alike to "civilisation is one body, and hours to break up the narrow pensate for this, he possessed took the greatest "boyish" calumny.--and danger. And his wo are all members one, of "terrific energy, which was satisfaction. He found that he iedom was as remarkable as another." It is true that Mrs. tracks that remain and leave manifest even in his school days. had "no bodily fear." He was his courage. Speaking of the Millin, in her brilliant and the whole countryside a series

This was shown in the last temporarily indifferent to death rebellion of 191d he said: "Was scrupulously faithful narrative, of flooded valleys knee-deep in

weck of his last term at school self but for others. The men not, the rebellion of 1914 quite claims that he was always "a under natural negotiator, a bellever mud.

But it is only when, knowing no Greck, he who were affected by the dead understandable?

since the War that General 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."

with leniency."

Smuts has had an opportunity of the heroism of hard-pressed pass his matriculation. "On wards, "were the neurotics."

of applying his geolus in this nations flooding their country Monday he took up his Greck

sphere to problems on the solu- tion of which depend the safety however, and happiness of mankind. And Mrs. Millin gives us an un- he knew it by heart, the whole so extensive a scale as this in book-declensions, conjugations, forgettable picture of this tat would modestly disclaim any today, when he addresses the an ideal world, it is as one of the wisest China. It tells more than many irregular verbs and all." As a tered General, invading Cape praise of himself as

Colony with his tiny forces, leader during those years and and most magnanimous of its battles of the determination of result of this and similar ex- 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 fallible 'inhabitante.

Empirea soldier at once on the Germans in East Africa. Ho their integrity and freedom at examination.

the offensive and on the run, had "hungry, angry eyes," Mrs.

* Faber and Faber. 188. He showed the same, spirit of carrying a Greek Testament Millin declares, till, at the age

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984 any cost.

and wounds, not only for him-

✩

General Smuts,

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