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I WAS

once your enemy. I fought against you

Saturday, MARCH 30, 1940.

I Was Your Enemy

with all the energy of my young heart and body for three bitter years.

So bitter were my feelings against Britain that oven when that war was over I re- fused to live under the British flag.

As I left my South African home to go into exile in Madagascar, I vowed that never again would I have anything to do with Britain.

And yet I have lived not only to fight for Britain in the Great War. but now to come as South Africa's representative to London to help -Britain In her new struggle.

That has been the full cycle of my life-irst to be your enemy, then to fight in the Great War as a colonel in command of the Flest Royal Scots Fusiliers, now to aid you in the fight against Hitlerian.

I am glad to come to London for at persorul reason. At the earliest opportunity I am going to establish contact again with the Royal Scots Fusiliers and renew the many friendships I made in the last war. Never have I met such fine fellows. Yet Liese

were the same Bellabers that I had once fought against In the Boer War.

That was forty years ago, when

I

was only seventeen, and was considered loo young to be enrolled as a burgher in the tight against Britain.

Has Turkey the Key?

Turkey may

hol a key to

the

Kremlin.

The

As the diplo hongkong Telegraph.

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the Soviets march with the Reich to added territorial conquests?

Turkey-as the British and French have recognised- stands in a strong position to play the broker. It has been making strenuous efforts to prevent the “Balkan Common-. wealth" from collapsing under German pressure. And, de- spite various differences with Moscow, the Turks still care- fully remember the aid of tho Soviets in the founding of the present Turkish Republic.

Yet the sudden reversals of policy in the fortress that was once the Czar's, have intensi-

fied the historians'y verdict that Russia is "equally difficult as a declared friend/or ag an undisguised foe."

This is a reservation which Turkey well understands. It

iy

probable

that neither

the Turks nor

the Allies are sanguine

ገ።

as they ap-

pear over an ultimate Russia bul-

wark to Ber-

lin's expansion. But the

By Deneys Reitz

South African Minister For Native Affairs

In this interview he tells how forty years

ko aro

fought against Britain; went into exile, fought for Britain in the Great War, and has now come to Lon- don for the Empire War Con- ference.

President Kruger himself solved this difficulty for me. "The boy can go," he said. I started fight- Ing earller than that.

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NE of my most notable udven

tures wan 24 inember General Smuts's smali army that invaded the Cape-the only“ naval engagement of the Buer War. On that occasion we fired our rifles al a British warship, which replied with her cannop,

Great Britain, after defeating us in war, trented us with generosity unknown in history and conferred on us an even greater measure of liberty than we lind enjoyed In our former republien.

In time WAN persunded by General Smuts and his wife that the offers of friendship made by fonner enemy ensured the future well-being of South Africa and her peoples.

utin

☆

So I returned to South Africa to play my part in the task of reconstructing the country-a fask

been nobly which has plished.

Accom-

At the outbreak of the last war I was first engaged in the South-West African

campaign

and later came over to France as a private with the South African forces.

Soon I found myself command. ing the First Royal Scuta Fustilers, one of the oldest regiments in tho British Army, which Agured in some of the hottest fighting in France.

Although I was severely wound- ed early in 1918, I was able to return to France in time to lead ny battalion in the last stages of the war, und, after the · Armistice, of led ny men to the Nhine.

The part South Afrlen played in the last war set the seal on that concept of equal partnership be- tween the Dominions which far- seeing statesmen had envisaged:

To-lay the British and Afel- kaans-speaking peoples share and value the freedom which is theirs as an equal and voluntary partner in the great Driflah Commun- wealth of Nations.

South Africa Is now fighting for that freedom. realising that We must use alt our resources to crun the smash-and-grab polley which is now trying to dominate the world.

THE

E Germans we on the wrong wicket in assuming that there is any pro-Nazi-ism among the Afrikaans-speaking people.

Nazi broadcasting to South Afrien in defeating its own ends by

its -far-fetched and extravagant character.

When the Nazis, for instance,

thes urge

Afrikaans speaking people to "drive the English into the sea." South Africa merely loughs.

The Afrikaans-speaking people know that the British people are their fellow-partners in the South African nation, that they have a common stake in the country, and

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that, to Jorgo degree, 'they are in fact kith and kçin.

The volume of South African sup-

port for Great Britain und her Allies cannot be exaggerated,

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IE Prime Minister, General Smuts, has announced that there is no intention of dispatch- int troops overseas 08 was done in the last war. I feel that I should einplusine here that, In: so doing, South Africa is best serving the cause of the Allies,

We have to guard a country rich in precious metals, minerais and foodstuffs and strategio bar- bours which lie on one of the most vital sea routes.

Should the war bring in its train an African campaign, South Africa will need all her fighting resources

spot. the

on

From the point of view of sup plles South Africa is giving th valuable aid. We are sending and will continue to send vital supplies of foodstuffs and minerais.

As un illustration of the coun- try's caserness to help, there in the movement initiated by the Mayor of Johannesburg to raise a fund of at least £1,000,000 for the pur- chase of foodstuffs for the Allies.

Again, Mayor of Port Eliza- fund for pro- cruiser to be called Africa.

N

beth viding a

H.M.S.

the

South

Last September thero

was n

sharp division of opinion over South Afrien's participation in the war, ba

but that was followed by no untoward incidents, Our Parlin mentary opponents took every op- portunity to advise their followers lo fet a constitutional manner.

The fact that our people have now acted in the strictest spirit of Parliamentary procedure must be

us evidence of our march to taken united natlonlood.

Africa wil pull weight in any ways and my pre- sence here in London is an carnest of our determination to do our full share in bringing victory

South

Allled case.

I'm Tired Of That Man's

you ever get tired of faces,

shores of the Black Sea Door Seclus the same faces day

the

and the approaches to Straits are areas where Rua- sia, as well as Turkey, would post no welcome signs to Nazi adventures. For this reason there is more than wishful thinking in the expectation that Russia may desire to exert some influence in re- weighting the Balkan balance.

The Soviet-German agree- ment and the Russian march into Poland and Finland have disclosed that the one con-

sistent line. of the Kremlin's policy is opportunism. Tur- key's hope is based on the be- lief that, for the moment, Turkish and Russian portunities may lic in the same direction. On long range issues, the Turks have way. of remembering

怎

op-

Nicholas 1. Six decades after he invented the phrase, "The Sick Man of Europe," the Turks had recovered but the crown of all the Russing had disappeared.

"Warfare

Government House, Hongkong, February 24, 1857. My dear Sir-I doubt not that it will be gratification, to my Manx friends, to hear from the best authority, that we are all recovered from the effects of the poison, of which several hundred

persons parlook on the 16th January

About 101 lbs. of arsenle had been mixed with a batch of bread Issued from the largest Chinese bakery in the Colony, and the excess of the quality led to Im- mediate alarm-application emetics, and speedy ejection of the "perlious stuff."

of

It left its effects for some days In rocking headaches, pains in the limbs and bowels, etc.

In my family, my wife, daugh tera, three, guests, my private secretary, and myself, bestdes several servants, ate of the poison- ed bread. Lady Bowring's has bren a bad case, as it is thought some of the arsenle had got into the lungs, but danger is now over. This mode at warfare is hard to deal with, and will, I am surė, excite a general sympathy and in- dignation. Large premiums have been offered by the mandarina to

Hard

after day, and hearing the voice which belongs to the face saying the same thinga

over and over ugain?

It may be that circumstances, such as war, now cause you to get very tired of the same faces day after day. Maybe you are in a cump, in billets, in your own home, in somebody else's home, compul- sorily closeted with these stunc fuces?

I can suggest one face less for

you.

fre-

Before the war it popped at us with -greater-und ---greater- quency, in photographs, in news- recis, In drawings, in cartoons. Good, honest Left-wing folk, who never seem to tire of it, even went to the theatre to see it.

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Now that face has become un absolute daily routine, making up the number at breakfast, making one exten in the railway corringe on the way to work, nosing into that odd moment of leisure in which you read the paper; even providing a laugh by means of the brilliant Fougasse posters in your club.

I complain that it is an Unneces sary Forc.

Face

I complain that we have seen enough photographs of this face to recognise it and all its 12 doubles. The camera cannot lie: we do not doubt it. Let us call it quits.

of

I complain, with greater fervour, the cartoonists. They have given us the Unnecessary Face in

ber

to the

They have worked upon those ludicrous features with all their art. They have made them the features of a house-painter, an

an airman. oppressor, a paranoiac,

They are to be congratulated on their diversity of truth. But the reiteration of this truth makes one ioo many of those faces we are to see daily for the duration. Most of us are tired of It: most of us are now content to take it on trust. Away with the Unnecessary Face, we say. Draw us something sub- lime or ridiculous, that is grown at home.

We are told that it is much more dificult to portray something --of- which one is in favour. The hand- some Pro, does not. lend itself to the satirical pencil so easily as the ugly Con. That is an excuse given for the

Face Unnecessay reappearance of the It is a melancholy state of

that they will affairs, and I find a solution before we become

as tired of the face of Adolf as once we tired of Wilhelm. And do you recollect how the faces of Wilhelm and Little Wille dropped out during the course of the last war?

John Pudney

all the guises of the imagination Britain After

Six Months

They have portrayed it old and

Plague me, I say, with people, with taxes, with in beer, with #pendant cardboard box, with searchlights In the garden, with secret

Weapons,

young, with ministry muddles, even with a lack of hot ham, if you like, but take away that paunchy face, its forelock, ita, moustache, and the trimmings which people delight to give it.

alckly and bolsterous, hatted and visored. They have varied the face by giving it the form of a hawk, a dove, a serpent, a ballet girl, an ostrich, and, inost commonly, a wolf.

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On January 15, 1857, an attempt was made to poison the entire European colony, including the garrison, by means of arsenic in the bread issued from the principal bakery in Hong- kong. The firm was known by the title of "Esing", the pro- prietor being a well-known compradore named Cheong Ah Lum.

The attempt failed in every case, and although two or three hundred persons partook of the poisoned bread, no lives were lost. Many suffered severely, none more so than the family. of Sir John Bowring, the then Governor. Lady Bowring was particularly affected, and shortly afterwards had to be sent Home, where she died a few months later."

A careful analysis of the bread showed that the poison was arsenic in the proportion of one drachm to each pound of bread; according to which about ten pounds of arsenic must have been distributed throughout the batch.

A letter from the Governor to Mr. William Kelly, of Douglas, Isle of Man, which was published in the "Liverpool Courier", deals with the attempt.

any who shall set fire to our - kousso," kidnap, or murder us; and many unfortunate wretches of all notions (an the hatred of the Chinese, is Indiscriminating), have been seized, decapitated 'and their heads have been exposet 'on the walls of Canton, their assailants having been largely rewarded;

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they have oven torn up the bodies of Christian men from their graves, In order to decapitate them and expose their muilated skulls to the public swaze.

All this is sufflelently horrible,

· but I doubt not the results will be ¡ most beneficial; for certainly we aliali exnet Indemnities for the

past, and obtain securities, for the futuro. We shall not crouch be- fore nesamination and incendiarisin, you may be assured.

I did all that depended upon ine to promote conciliation and estab- lish prace. This was obviously my duty, but every effort I made was trented with scorn and repul slon. The forbearance with which the Chinese have been treated hins been wholly misunderstood by them, and attributed to our appre- hension of their great power, and awe of the majesty of the "Son of Heaven." So they have disregard. ed the most solemn engagement of treaties and looked upon us an "barbarians" who, In a moment of success, Imposed conditions from which they were to escape. when occasion offered, and when they could (in their judgment) safely ཁས་ do co.

I doubt not that Government, Parliament, and public opinion will go with us in this great strunte, and pray that my life may have been preserved for the real and enduring benefit of my country and mankind.

Ever faithfully yours,

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