Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17

the terms Of the Boer surrender in
| 1902
His greatest service to the empire
was the ensuing work of reconstruc-
| ton. When he left for England in
| 1905, he had laid deep and strong
the foundations of a united South
Africa"
Miner became the imperialistic
par excellence. carrying on the
Chamberlain tradition, only more so.
He was for binding the common
wealths of the empire into a per
manent organic union" "Of such a
union" said he in 1905, "the domin-
cons of the sovereign as they exist
today are only the raw material" He
was for q permanent deliberatiVe
council. He was the grand champion
of imperial preference and of tariff
reform" ii. e. protection) answerable
/ to his imperial idea.
His contribution in the World War
was great one, especially in the
matter of food production and con-
troll. He was perhaps Lloyd Georges
most valuable colleague in the war
cabinet. because of the resolution of
his character and his willingness TO
shoulder responsibilities and face
facts. He was all for coordination Of
allied effort, and is said to have been
| chiefly responsible for Foch's APP
pointment as generalissimo.
The browning recognition of his
Importance was his appointment TO
the war office in the critical Spring
of 1918. When the trouble broke in
Egypt in 1919 he was made head of
commission TO investigate the stu
alton and recommend a remedial pol
icy. The present status of Egypt "a
qualified independence resulted from
the memorandum of the commission.
Lord Miner has left a deep impress
sion on the British empire.
| Sir Henry Rider Haggard is dead.
He was born in 1856. Few novels
have had such popularity as She.
king Solomons Mines" and Allan
Quatermain"-a popularity sufficiently
justified, for the authors rather eXr
cessive exuberance of imagination was
associated with genuine literary gifts
she" at least, will probably keep
the shelves for many a decade stilk
and should. Haggard's chief interest.
however, was not novel writing, but
agriculture and sociology. He is
notable authority on intensive farm
ing, whereof he wrote several books.
One shudders pleasantly, recalling his
tales of Impi and Assegai.
Several hundred cases of sleeping
sickness are reported from England
1t is, however, a curiously mild form,
only one death-that of Lord Miller
having resulted; the course of the
malady being about 10 days.
A snake has been discovered in Ire
land
William Ferguson Massey, Premier
of New Zealand, died on May 10 at
the age of So. He was born in Ulster,
went out to New Zealand in his 14th
year and commenced farming. He
has been premier since 1915 Che
last of the war premiers to hold on.
remarkable fact, since he was a sturdy
I ~, -
strongly toward radical experiment.
History will give him much of the
credit for the splendid participation
of New Zealand in the war. He was
an ardent Imperialist, while standing
out for equality of the dominions with
the mother country in the imperial
partnership. 1t was largely due to
his efforts that the dominions were
separately represented at the Wash
ington conference. He represented
New Zealand at the imperial war
cabinet and war conference meetings
of 1917 and 1918 at the peace con.
ference of 1919 and at the imperial
conference of 1921. He preached inn
perial preparedness and was bitterly
resentful of the British Labor gov
ernment's abandonment of the Singa-
pore project, a project since revived.
He was a warm advocate of close re
lations between the Pacific dominior-s
and the United States.
France.--Gen. Mangin is dead at
! the age of SO. He was one of the
, most gallant and competent of the
great leaders of the war. Entering
the Army in 1886. he had his fill OF
, colonial petty warfare in Algeria, Mo
rocco, the Sudan, Indo-China and YEAS
three times wounded. His most me.
- IL
ture of Fort Douaumont at Verdun in
1916, and his share in the counter at
tack on the German Marine (Soissone-
, Chateau Thierry) salient on July IS,
!. 1918, that turning point in history.
The attack initiated, 1 believe, by
. lMangan) was executed in conjunction
with Degoutte: Mangin's army eX-
;. tending from the Aisne to the Ourcq
and Degouttes with the majority of
the American participants from the
Ourcq to the Marine. The ma jority of
the attacking troops on that glorious
, day were Americans; but the bulk of
!. Mangin's army We're African colonialss
Mangin had been the most ardent adj
! vocate of full military use of the man
= power of the French African colonies,
and his advocacy was borne out by
the magnificent behavior of the colo
malls on this occasion.
Americans will always cherish
O Mangin's testimony to the conduct of
@ our men on that July IS.
/ Besides being a thunderbolt of war,
V Mangin was a cultivated man of wide
:. reading and an accomplished must,
l., clan.
/ His comment Flint La Guerre" is
one Of the most notable of the war
books, a mastery review of the chief
., operations of the war. The charge OF
e brutality made by his enemies seems
V to have been totally undeserved.
s x = x x
French ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS peril
e to number of isolated French block
: houses, each manned by about so
z Senegalese under couple of French
S officers, led Marshal Lyautey to
r order an advance in force on the 14th
IL and attack on the heights of Bibane
strongly fortified by the RifenoS ono
r doubt with the expert assistance OF
d European soldiers of fortune, Ger
e man or other).
n The attack, directed by Gen. the
v Count De Chambrun. was a gallant
r affair and successful. Apparently
d this success played havoc with Add
el-krim's defensive arrangements
and resulted in relief of all the iso-
lated French positions except two
& One now conjectures whether Marsha
y Lyautey is proceeding to complete
Is the job of expelling the Rifenos anc
Or their associates from the French pro-
tectorate, or is waiting for reinforce
ID mentS.
e A pleasant aspect of modern war
y fare is seen in the relief of the dis
n comfort of isolated posts by drop