Marble Hill press., 1921-11-03

vent 60 Cambridge tur q university edncatica In
Law Rack again 10 south Africa, he Prsciic~i
Law and po-cs Then he became Paul krusgrf'
secretary Of state Probably hi. state letters '"
London had more than = little to DO with hrinrnE
the Ro-r British Var 81 isse 1907 Into that
hard fought little confie, he sent n private
II was about thl, line that Str Alfred Miner
aud SHUTS had their famous encounter. which
thus described by stephen Boa.al In the Se- iors
Times:
"Milnsr Is reported to have pleaded With his
young and promising Antasonist much In thcss
words:
stop look whore YOU hrr going. smuis Too
are digging your political grave without knowing
It, ! think. England sill never forgive OF forget
this--and you Cambridge malone of our
own
Yes thought was almost an fnglishmsn
too SHUTS Is said 60 have answered Bot the
Jameson raid proved to me that wasn't Tn TO-
ing with Dom Paul Krueser, not because I'm q
puichman or a South African, but because he Is
right and want 10 he right Perhaps some day
England will see who her real friends and
who were her real foes but In the meantime
shall do my duty as see livery clearly"
How Interesting the meeting between these two
men Ms colleagues on the british delegation to tic
Paris peace conference
That ws- '--,-a rour years. Tho British enlist.
menta totnled SybbO Hnu tnosr VI ths b"FIs wv
GO The British casualties wer- 2+ooo aud those
of the Roers 4ooo With 40Oo0 prisoners The
main cause ot the war was the dsconicnt Of the
"outIanders" The terms Of peace were that the
Beers gave allegiance 10 Great Britain and were
granted full amnesty and the return Of their
property.
smuis emerged from the war a general. II he
had considerable share In bringing on the war. he
prohshIy had more to do with bringing about
peace. For he was one II the Boer peace commits
soners who met General Kitchener and Lord NIL.
ner Incidentally. SHUTS ssfe-conduct pass bore
the signature, % Haig. Colonel" Yes: this is
the same Field Marshal Sir Douglas Hais with
whom Gen. Jan Christian SHUTS stood shoulder
to shoulder agans, the Germans. OF the part
played by Smuts In bringing about peace In 1909
Edwin C. Hill writes In the New York Herald:
-It was as one Of the Bocr peace commissioners
who met General Kitchener and Sir Alfred Miner
that SHUTS rose to the rank Of . statesman The
commissioners had been unable to agree and the
Beers returned their convention Of national dele
gates to obtain new instructions about surrender
ing Internationally. For days the convention was
nj ioggerheads. The delegates refused TO legts-
late the republics out Of existence. Al length
SHUTS gained q hearing. He told them the truth
about the situation. He said that II was impossi-
Bile 70 fight longer that they could expect no help
from Europe and America, and that further resist
ance meant useless bloodshed.
"'Brethren' he declared In what In regarded
among South. Africans as ore Of the most eloquent
and cert ainly one OF the most momentous speeches
ever made In that country. we have vowed to
stand fast to the bitter end Let us be men and
acknowledge that that end has now come and that
II u more bitter than ever We thought m could o~