SOUTH AFRICA.
MUCH-IMPROVED FEELING. FUTURE OF GERMAN COLONUSeL CAPETOWN", August 28. A meeting at Harrismitli was ad" dressed by Colonel Mentz (Minister lor Lands), who spoke in English. He urged the necessity for German South-VSaet Africa becoming part of the Union, an* the retention of German East Africa *• a British possession. Questioned at Bethlehem. Colonel Mentz declared that no Imperial Conference could bind the people of iSoutO Africa. He also mentioned in connection with the recent crisis at Pretoria tlia* the Government had received information of a plot to blow up the magazine and railway station. Colonel Mentz, interviewed, said M* general impression was that the feeling in the Orange Free State wne generally .very much better than it was a little while ago. Public opinion generally WM stronger in support of tue Britisli connections, and if it was a fair giw °"'' , ' take policy between South < md the rest of the Empire the existing !i;i.*» I would be greatly strengthened.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 207, 30 August 1918, Page 2
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