This city of tents, which has been the scene of South Africa's four-day Voortrekker celebrations, in which 100,000 persons participated, is now dispersed.
The waggons, which had trekked over the trail followed by the pioneers who fled northward from British rule 100 years ago, have left again and the greatest laager—the protective circle of covered waggons—has vanished, leaving only the green vold. On this vold, the £130,000
Voortrekker Memorial, the foundation stone of which was laid Friday, will now be erected.
An enthusiastic reception was given King George's*message, which was loudly cheered when it was read at the stone-laying ceremony. The message was appreciated by all South Grand Duke Vladimir Given Allegiance Paris, Dec, 18.
All members of the Russian colony here took an oath of allegiance to Grand Duke Vladimir Cyrillovich today, thereby promoting a reconciliation between the Russian mon-
Such a state would derive its chief importance from the fact that it would contain the rich Rumanian oil fields, part of the Russian Black Sea coast ənd the Soviet Union's Dnieper Valley irrigation and blast-furnace projects.—United Press. archists and the Romanoff family.
The rupture between the two groups was due to the "leftist" attitude of the late pretender Grand Duke Cyril father of Grand Duke Vladimir who approved the "young Russia" movement.—Havas. the Legion's efforts, for many years, to create good understanding with Germany. Distinguished delegations of German ex-servicemen, he pointed out, had been received with the utmost friendship and cordiality in Great Britain. Representatives of the British Legion, likewise, had frequently been in Germany.
Recently, Sir Frederick Maurice continued, there had been natural expressions of indignation at the brutal treatment of the Jews in Germany.
These, he asserted. had been a swered in Germany by violent attacks on British soldiers, not only on those serving under circumstances of exceptional difficulty in Palestine, but even on soldiers serving in the South African War.
Although I donot believe that the German ex-servicemen whom we know approve of that kind of thing," the Legion President concluded, "yet it is useless to go to Germany on missións of appeasement, when the Gefman press and towns are placarded with vilifications of our comrades."
He added that "it is our great hope that we shall be able to return to our task of appeasement and recover some of the ground that we have lost—
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