SOUTH AFRICA.
OLIVE SCHREINER'S VIEWS. Jn a recently published book on ' The South Afrionri Situation,' Olive Schreiner says:— 'Again we ask ourselves, who gains by war P What is it for P Wbo is there that desires it P Do moo shed streams of human blood as ohlldruti cut off poppy head* to see the white juice fbwP Not England 1 ... Not Afrioa ! . . . Not the gre»t woman . . . who ocald carry with her to the grave the remembrance of tbe longest reign and the purest. , , . M ' t the brave EjOßfoh soldiers. . . , Who gains by war P There are some who think they gain ! In the background we catch sight of tnUty figures ; we know the old tread ; we hear the rustle of paper passirg from hand to hand, and we know the fall of gold ; it is an old familiar sound In Afrioa; we know it now! Taere are some who think they gain. Will they gain P '
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11320, 2 September 1899, Page 5
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157SOUTH AFRICA. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11320, 2 September 1899, Page 5
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