SOUTH AFRICA’S FEARS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 285, 14 September 1935, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA’S FEARS.

MENACE OF A COLOUR WAR. REVERSION TO BARBARISM. (Received This Day, 0.0 a.m.) GENEVA, Sept. 13. Mr Tewater (South Africa) said that a new partition of Africa by; European Powers was greatly to be feared. Such partition was outside' the League’s covering blanket, and was fraught with danger and the menace of the black races going to war, with consequent reversion to barbarism. He referred to the long memory of the black man and said: “Africa never forgets and never forgives injury or injustice.” The South African Government and all its people—black and white—viewed with deep concern the relentless march of the disease of war, said Mr Tewater, who paid a warm tribute to the renaissance Signor Mussolini has achieved in Italy, and asked him to pause at the eleventh hour. The session of the League Assembly was adjourned until to-morrow.

the assembly impressed. TRADE RELATIONS A FACTOR. (Received This Day, 9.4.3 a.m.) LONDON, September 13. The Associated Press correspondent at Geneva says that the mystic quality of Mr Tewater’s speech deeply impressed the Assembly, notably his re-

ference to the black man’s long memory of injustices and his warning that an attempt to conscript black Africa might result in a rising for the overthrow of Europeans, as had been done before.

The speech carried' all the more weight in view of South Africa s trade relations with Italy.

WILL STAMD BY THE LEAGUE.

IN APPLYING SANCTIONS. (Received This Day, 11.15 a-m.) GENEVA, Sept. 13. Mr Tewater, in a broadcast speech, declared that in the event of violation of the covenant. South Africa would stand by the League in applying sanctions if members were unanimous on the point.