CUTTING THE PAINTER.
SECESSIONISTS IN AFRICA. BITTERENDERS' CAMPAIGN.. CAPETOWN, May 16. The secession, issue is becoming more prominent in the election campaign. The oft-repeated assertion that the Nationalist-Labour : pact had killed secession is discounted by a statement made at the Rustenburg meeting by the Prime Minister (General Smuts). Mr. Piet' Grobler, one of the moSl prominent Nationalist ineir.'bers of Parliament, in replying to General' Smuts maintained that under the pact -the Nationalists were free to continue propaganda inside or outside of Parliament The only reservation was that they muai not take a vote. General Smut, several times repeated . the question, but Mr. Grobler "stouitlj maintained that there was the fullest liberty for propaganda. '" .'' This statement made considerable impression, especially among the ■ new British settlers in the district. The latter had been assured by the Nationalists that secession was dead.— (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 116, 17 May 1924, Page 7
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