DELUGE OF HONORS.
SOUTH A.FRICA IN RESENTMENT.
CAPETOWN, Aug. 28.. An outcry against the lavishness of honors confeo'ried m connecticai with the campaign m German South-West Africa is' voiced by the Cape Times m a strongly worded leading article. The paper says: "Showers of honors there have been m the! past, but this list is net an instance of asho.wer; it\s a downpour, a cloudburst, a deluge. The fountains *of War Oifice Grace have broken tip and the windows of the heaven of honorß have opened, with the consequence that the South African public are left with an "uneasy feeling that m this instance the decorative streams are not only occasionally diverted from the channels to which merit aiid achievement -would confine them, but. that the whole system df '■ distribution- has been swept away by a torrential spate of which the waters ;are anything but pellucid. ' / ' ■ \ '', '
South Africa, wlum it ceases to laugh, will assuredly resent having been made the,' laughing stock of the rest of- the Empire, for that is what it amounts to."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14748, 30 October 1918, Page 6
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