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Show II CENTAL MS f' LONDON, Dec. 1G Lieutenant Gen- :! eral Jan Christian Smuts, has resigned as member of the war cabinet on the ! ground that the end of the war has terminated rhe need of his services, J according to the Express; Jan Christian Smuts has long been a figure in the political life of South . i Africa. During the Boer war he was . In command of the republican forces in Cape Coloney. As commander of British forces in East Africa, fighting against the Germans, his success was remarkable. In January, 1917, the British government gov-ernment named him n member of the imperial war conference ns representative represen-tative or the Union of South Africa, and in June, 1917, he entered the war cabinet. |