[A Straight Deal by Owen Wister]@TWC D-Link bookA Straight Deal CHAPTER XVII: Paint 2/4
Thus did all England's colonies offer and bring both themselves and their resources, from the smallest to the greatest; little Newfoundland, whose regiment gave such heroic account of itself at Gallipoli; Australia who came with her cruisers, and with also her armies to the West Front and in South Africa; New Zealand who came from the other side of the world with men and money--three million pounds in gift, not loan, from one million people.
And the Boers? The Boers, who latest of all, not twenty years before, had been at war with England, and conquered by her, and then by her had been given a Boer Government.
What did the Boers do? In spite of the Kaiser's telegram of sympathy, in spite of his plans and his hopes, they too, like Canada and New Zealand and all the rest, sided of their own free will with disagreeable England against agreeable Germany.
They first stamped out a German rebellion, instigated in their midst, and then these Boers left their farms, and came to England's aid, and drove German power from Southwest Africa.
And do you remember the wire that came from India to London? "What orders from the King-Emperor for me and my men ?" These were the words of the Maharajah of Rewa; and thus spoke the rest of India.
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