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...dikes and walls, wild animals would never come into contact with cattle. Similar reservations are already in existence in other African states. The largest is Kruger National Park, five million acres stretching from Johannesburg east to Portuguese East Africa. The building of roads in British territory since the Boer War has made hunting from the back seat of an automobile too easy, has made it imperative that the Earl of Onslow, president of England's Society for Preserving the Fauna of the Empire set aside territories where hunters may not shoot. Belgium's largest reservation is Albert Park...
...Other Doyle works: The Great Boer War; The Coming of the Fairies; History of Spiritualism...
...utterly fed up with England was Englishman Robinson that his will contains a further, ingenious clause: if any hitch prevents German veterans from accepting his money, it is to go to Dutch veterans of the Boer War against England, and the cash in this event will be handled by General Rt. Hon. Jan Christiaan Smuts, famed Boer-turned-Briton...
...obeyed the command: "Sell all thou hast, and give it to the poor." He built up as a young man one of the most lucrative legal practices in India, then devoted all his possessions except the last wad or two of rags to succoring the needy. During the Boer war he turned the other cheek to Great Britain by organizing Indian Red Cross units, served with such passive, non-violent gallantry at the front that he wrung a medal for bravery from the Empire. For his pro-British speeches during the World War he drew another medal...
Unlike royal Brother-in-law Athlone, whose only occupation has been military (in the Boer War he won the D. S. O.; in the World War was twice mentioned in despatches), the Earl of Clarendon is "in trade." As Chairman of the government-owned British Broadcasting Co.* he has a salary of $14,580 a year, four times that of sharp-tongued Mrs. Philip Snowden, one of the B. B. C.'s three governors. Among his Lordship's not inconsiderable possessions are 500 acres of good Hertfordshire and Warwickshire land, an extensive collection of Old Masters (Van Dyck...