RULE OF THE RIFLE

Waihi Daily Telegraph, Volume XX, Issue 6736, 9 October 1922, Page 2

RULE OF THE RIFLE

— — ifi WARNING TO S. AFRICAN EXTREMISTS ' \ 1 ! W 1 „ ' V ■ia ■\VILL not be tolerated c rand murders recalled United' Service Telegrams. i'J (Received 10 30 a.m.' \tm t CAPETOWN, October 8 .'-'oJkV Speaking at Springfontein the Pr e ier of South Africa, General J, Smuts, referring to the execution of Etaesen , for murdering two iiatNefe during the Rand rebellion, said that the Judges ';• arrived at the conclusion that th & death • -i sentence was the only on© possible. It < was a bitter thing to condemn a man to death, but had he not advised the • Governor-General' a s he did he would' " not have been worthy of his position, tic deprecated the great danger of the tendency in Sbutli Africa to relei disputes to the arbitrament of the HCe. S</ long as he held power he iwould not tolerate the rule of the rifle, and wouldnot permit extremists to rule the conn- : try. Referring to the world position ho ' declared that it seemed as if the old world had reached its zenith, and that - a decline would follow. / '"’’S' ,