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Show Will Peace U Mr.F.W.lteltz,,vhow,tMM President of the Orange C'. and who at the outbreak ot th, war was. faecretarj of Bute Transvaal Government , ,h. , of nn article entitled Is it p vvhlch appears In the aNovember , ber of the North America Although he was one of thT.lr," the articles of pence whi !, " the war. he declares that tKE Ing upon tho conscience, ol la. , who agreed to Its terms t, ,"! ' He disclaims any authority er T Hon to speak ror those ot M, who remain In feouth Africa . of tho British crown He sari ' He Is speaking as a laivverof ir )ears' standing who knous that., tract made under compulsion It binding contract "It may be urged that this nig Is not recognized In internatloml 1 but thnt Immediately auneiti """Hon what Is International! and is there such a thing after ar This war In (muth Africa h among other Importnnt thlnzi m to the world that, Geneva com lions and Hague conference! to contrary notwithstanding Internal nl law has come to mean nothing n, than the law of the stronger' "Moreover, the terms of peace 1 the solemn nnd undeniable pronto the British representatives as rtis-a rtis-a general amnesty to Cape rebela 1 been deliberately anl scandato broken, while the Ink waa hardly r on tho paper on which they wereti ten Therefore, even If upon moral 1 legal grounds those peace articles n binding (which they are not) wheat! were signed, I would still main that, the one party to the ajreem having broken Its promises, the 0 party is thereby released "Is this peace?" "No, It In not And what la Ut rlate In South Africa today untei pettlfogglngly vindictive and mallei rule of the two men who were call responsible for the war Ihe Bill Secretary of State for the Colonial his satellite. Lord Mllner-fully n firms me In this view " |