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Mr. Chamberlain in reply said that he had seen men

of all opinions, and his hope was to bring them together. He had met many men who had fought in the war, and had learned to respect them thoroughly and to trust their assurances that they were prepared to be as good friends as they had been stout enemies. Might he not hope it would be the same in the Cape Colony P He was ready to accept Mr. de Wears assurances that there had been faults on both sides, and he rejoiced to hear that in Middelburg a good beginning had been made to remove the mutual distrust that kept the races apart. In conclusion, be appealed to the Dutch to abandon their parochial attitude. He wanted them to be proud not only of their .villages and towns, but of the British Empire, "which is as much theirs as ours."

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