A Reuter telegram of November 17th says that Mr. Smuts,
speaking at Johannesburg, declared that Cecil Rhodes and Paul Kruger were the dominating personalities in South African history. They had laid the spoor which would be followed for centuries. He praised the acts of heroism of both British and Dutch in the war, and said that these were the finest inheritance of the country. As though to give sub- stance to his remark, he announced that when the reorganisa- tion of the Volunteers was before him he had refused to allow the disappearance of the "Imperial Light Horse." "That name," he said, " has a right to survive." It will be remem- bered that this regiment was raised expressly for the war, and was recruited mainly from British Outlanders in Johannesburg, who were naturally the most bitter enemies of the Boers. The generosity of Mr. Smuts's words is a good promise for the future of the Transvaal. We are glad to see that Sir Percy Fitzpatrick at the same time was able to praise the dignity and restraint with which the work of the past Session in the Transvaal Parliament had been conducted.
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