LORD MILNER AND THE EMPIRE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8455, 4 June 1907, Page 5

LORD MILNER AND THE EMPIRE.

A DISCORDANT NOTE,

Received June 3, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, June 3. The Earl of Carrington, speaking at Ilford, said that Lord Milner's speech was a discordant note. All true Englishmen must read it with pain, astonishment, and indignation. No responsible statesman of modern times had brought charges so unfair and untrue against a Government. The granting of a responsible government to the Transvaal was received with satisfaction by the whole of the civilised word. (Lord Milner, formerly High Commissioner for South Africa, speaking at a Unionist demonstration at York, acknowledged the wisdom and firmness shown by Sir Edward Grey and Mr Morley in connection with Egypt and India, but added that radical fanatics had directed their full force to South Africa, which was a lightning conductor for their mis.chievous activities. Lord Milner quoted remarks made by Mr J. C. Smuts, Colonial Secretary in the Botha Ministry, to show how grave was the material depression in the Transvaal. This alarming decline was due to the reckless election agitation in Great Britain destroying confidence. While Lord Milner recognised the sincerity of General Botha's speeches, he contended that the Transvaal had been transferred to a purely racial party, and this act had laid the foundations of Dutch ascendency from Capetown to the Limpopo River. The Briton, at any rate, temporarily, was the "under dog.")