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Stuart Cloete's South African novel The Turning Wheels has sold 164,000 copies in the U. S., 50,000 in England, has been a best-seller in South Africa. But now no Cape Town bookseller has a copy. After it had been damned as an insult to Boer heroes, "filthy," discourteous, inaccurate, misleading to foreign readers, Minister of the Interior Stuttaford banned the book with a ruling that stopped importation of new copies. Claiming that the ban was political, with no legal excuse given, the English publishers announced: "The Government feared the loss in the forthcoming elections...
...service, went down to South Africa (which one branch of his family had helped settle three centuries ago) to recuperate. He stayed 15 years, working on cattle ranches, ending as owner of a dairy farm near Johannesburg; had no thought of writing until five years ago, when, bursting with Boer legends, he returned to London, ground some of his material into London magazine serials, used the remainder in the present novel. Tall, mustached, handsome, he would like (having visited Manhattan) to divide his time between England and the U. S., is meditating a series of connected novels to bring Boer...
Bill Wright stayed in Ontario, living by himself in a barnlike mansion in Barrie, a small town 40 miles north of Toronto. A onetime British butcher, he served in the Boer War, got a veteran's grant in Canada, turned to prospecting when the land proved barren. During the World War he was famed as the only millionaire private in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. So rich he does not know what to do with his money, he nevertheless complains bitterly about two things: 1) having to walk downstairs to answer the telephone at night and 2) having...
Kipling was in South Africa when the Boer War began, and he stayed through it, enjoyed himself hugely. Very popular with the troops, he raised quarter of a million pounds for them from the royalties of some popular verses (The Absent-Minded Beggar). Very British about the Boers, he recalls that De Wet with 250 men, Smuts with 500, were handy fighters; "but, beyond that, got muddled." After the war he took a house for his family at Cape Town, next to Cecil Rhodes's, wintered there for seven years. Kipling's best-known poem, If,* which...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir John Donald Kelly, 65, Naval Aide to King Edward VIII, who rose from a cadet at 13 to first lieutenant in the Boer War, Fourth Sea Lord of the Admiralty in 1924, Commander-in-Chief of the Atlantic Fleet in 1931; in London. When Atlantic Fleet sailors rebelled at pay-cuts in 1931, he dashed to Invergordon, quelled mutiny...