THE SOUTH AFRICAN CRISIS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11880, 16 January 1914, Page 4

THE SOUTH AFRICAN CRISIS.

The Union Government in South Africa lias need to be a strong body at the present time. They must stand firm or disaster is likely to overtake the country. A strike in South Africa does not resemblo a strike in most other countries. A strike mob is a dangerous proposition at the best of times, and a striker, incited by unscrupulous leaders, is a particularly eavago animal, but a mob composed of all nationalities, and some of the men the very worst specimens of the races they represent, is a danger to be feared above most dangers. At a time of strike in South Africa there is always tho native menace. The blacks greatly outnumber the whites and tho slightest excuse for an outbreak suffices. Eace hatred exists +o ;i great extent, and should the Kaffirs break out in real earnest, the country would certainly run with blood. When Labour agitators decide on a strike it appears that no consideration, however grave, is allowed to stand in their way. In the present case they may start a conflagration which will have appalling, and, by them, unforseen results.