Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1915. SOUTH AFRICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 131, 5 February 1915, Page 4

Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1915. SOUTH AFRICA.

(With which Is incorporated The Tuihapo Post '/.hJ Waimariiiii Hews.)

Nothing can be more gratifying than the. prompt and loyal course takbn by the Union Administration under Mr Botha in S. Africa to stamp out all vestige of rebellion and to check all attempts at invasion by the neighbouring German colonies. The prompt declaration of martial lave was encouraging and ample evidence, that the Empire’s interests were in firm and steady hands. There was no need to attach great importance to the treasonable conspiracies of Maritz. I)e Wet and a few of the old irreconcilable Boors, for events have proved that most trusted leaders of our South African fel-low-colonists were ready to rake up the cause of the Empire with a courage,determination and loyally unsurpassed in any other quarter of our dominions. There must necessarily he men in all communities whose minds are incapable of understanding change such as South Africa was subject to as, a result of the Boer War of of modifying okh convictions, and,, it .would have- been strange if Germany, with, her network of espionage and her insatiable ambition, had not organised and. financed plots in a region so accessible to her colonial forces, and which, was so lately in arms against the British. Grown. The more intelligent Boers have however, learned that within the British Empire every liberty can be retained, and every patriotic instinct satisfied, and, more especially, that German military despotism is as alien lo their hereditary principles and instincts of freedom as the methods of tire most barbarous countries. We have yet to learn what tire ultimate outcome of German intrigue in this quarter will be. but it is not believable that it mull be anything less than.the elimination from youth Africa of all future possibilitity of dangers of smb a character. Militant European .Powers have no natural or legitimate right in distant oceans and continents, whore they seek only .to disturb the peaceful occupation of true colonial peoples. Germany has been torn from her foothold in the Pacific, and now 'he South African Union is looking to it that she is similiarly bundled out of-South Africa, so that when peace is won there may be no further difficulty. , The Botha Government has boldiy asserted itself, and withstood the force of all challenges, came they from rebels or invaders, and them? is .no reason to doubt that South Africa, will, without any outside assistance, bo equal to quelling every vei'-iiigo of its internal uprisings, ami also to drive the marauding, intriguing Germans entirely from its .territory.