CHAMBERLAIN IN AFRICA

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 36, 11 February 1903, Page 2 (Supplement)

CHAMBERLAIN IN AFRICA

ARRIVAL AT JOHANNESBURG.

AN ENTHUSIASTIC RECEPTION.

"NO BRITON SHALL APPEAL IN VAIN FOR HELP."

Mr Chamberlain arrived at Johannesburg on January Bth, and was cheered vociferously for some minutes, the demonstration only ceasing to allow the addresses froa the Town Council, Australians, the Birmingham community, and the Hebrew community to be read. The addresses from the council and the Australians were enclosed in splendid gold caskets. That of the Australians weighed 84oz. When Mr Chamberlain attempted to address the people he was compelled to desist owing to 4-he great cheering, but eventually was listened to with rapt attention.

After referring to tne receipt of congratulatory messages from the Prime Minister of the Australian Commonwealth and tbe Premier of New Zealand, Mr Chamberlain proceeded:—

"Ladies and gentlemen, I attach great Importance to my visit to Johannesburg, No one can fail to see that the key to this South African situation is in the Transvaal. There our difficulties have arisen. There they must be settled, and if the Transvaal In future is peaceful and contented, I am not afraid of trouble from any other part of South Africa. Johannesburg, however, with its people noted for their intelligence and activity, and from the fact that it is the centre of the greatest industry, tin country upon which the prosperity of South Africa must always so largely dependJohannesburg, I say, must have an important influence on the settlement of the question with which we have to deaL ('Hear, hear.') I hope that influence will be given wisely."

A little later came the declaration referred to in the cables, strongly reml# cent of Lord Palmerston's famous text, "Civis Romanus sum":—

"I come to you as a friend. (Cheers.) Id the darkest days of your adversity, when you were subject to oppression and insult —('hear, hear') —I supported your appeal for the intervention of the Imperial Government. (Cheers.) I thought your cause was juet—(cheers)— and I hold that M Briton should appeal in a just cause to toe Motherland for* help and go away dissatisfied. (Cheers.) I have, when an opportunity offered, denounced these men rt> always find their country in the wron?(cheers)— who attributed every virtue tt tlieir foes—(cheers) —and see no good vm ever in their friends. (Laughter.) "You have been accused, iv Johannesburg, of clamouring for war in order to fill VM pockets. (Laughter.) That is a false » cusation. (Cheers.) It has been shown" be so far. You risked everything in oroer to preserve those rights which no seii-re specting Briton could surrender witlioiit humiliation. (Cheers.) You have been accused of unwillingness to share the flangers of the war you provoked. TiM proach, ladies and gentlemen, has i»*» wiped out by the Imperial Light Horse« Ladysmith—(cheers)—and by the galla™ of the contingents which you sent :tm this cfty to fight—(cheers)-and «c many of the fiercest encounters tnai iw» place throughout the war." (C&e«r&J . This served to pleasantly introduce t» question of a war contribution. . "But there is still another calumny you—(laughter)—for it has been said?" you are prepared to repudiate your -n in the eipendlture-(laughtert-wU J "J been incurred in this war. There arep pie who say that you, whose utn came first in the matter, wh I >«jg the Motherland, but your s ster com m , have made sacrifices to maintain toe that you alone in the British Empire» in your duty. (Cheers, and >°- /% I will wait and see-(Ioud l»°g^&do not believe that men who faced w al danger and suffering with so nracn d cry will now show that they care for their purses than they did wr con . lives—(cheers)—and now while you » j M , suiting that subject—(laughter)- ™ y to witness that the Mother CounW fl done her duty oy you. (Cheers.) " &t appealed for help, did she shrink i^ , call? ('No.') She answered. X ;* ' b hesitation. (Cheers.) She po««J \ d her blood and treasure without bu ft I think in the future, at any W*' ttv i of never be said that she was w*^the ties that bind her to hei <»» (Cheers.)

Those who preach physical M occasionally demand W*11",..-!^. able performances 01 [&%%5» The man who suggests tne ff method of "transforming » ,.„, chest" asks rather a lot:—b^-r^w doorway, placing the flattens v of your hands on the casings \>^ the height of your shoulJ erS d ' «!» without removing your h1" 1. ' for t? through the door. Do tA^ times night and morningbe amazed to see how y°"r, C be c O it>e 3 rise. No doubt. But what . y of the door? This good man his pupil to become a sort o „ gimlet." It would be as ™aS°*\^ ask us to place one hand upo another upon the floor, *>* through, the roof. •■■ -"