"LOADED DICE."

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 121, 25 May 1927, Page 7

"LOADED DICE."

FLAG CONTROVERSY.

Unprecedented Interest in South Africa.

TOION JACK EXCLUDED.

j fßf Zts.t.—i'rtt* lutiAOoa.—cmragau

I CAPETOWN. Mar fi. ' Th* paK]ir inlciT-t id th* .M«coad I r*a.hn- of the YU~ Bill in the Hoas* of Tra> nEpr«x*<i<MU#<i. and oorr comer of the ?alkry was filled. The Minister of the Iotenor. Dr. j D. F. SLalan. -who u> ia chare- of toe ' HiU. ia explaining J oe measure. fin»t dealt -ftith :h#. f!ao*«i recardinr ; utioaaJitv which require three vejuV re>!<3cnn». TTie Minister -tre** r. n tiw point tha; c\cry s>utb Afnc&a mu«t be j British, but cipry Bntos e«si not be * j African dtjienThis Ux Opfiositi'M] M>d w O eW i ojcan the dttfruidiiseiaent oJ * number | <»t Bnti»b subject-. Dr. MaUn Th<? »>pT«»it-K>n ] ;o lum* a •jnr' , * fr<n» »nd independent j nation which kid n«>? n* o»o natioiu] Tl»« infin'jcr* oJ »b«" «»T)j»e»jt».-n ! retorted ■with cri«» of "TTlm* ! AuatraUa, Ncit Zealicd *ad Ct-aed*? ,, ' Dr. MjUu replied tiat •alut sr*:t I ,o *- »ib:« in Au»tnli» »nd .\>w "•«.»] iK>t n?rc>!^ri]j po»;-i1>!? in South Africa. | Th«r had had in South Ainca an *3u»- i ;t:shcr different hiatorv. In ai">t of th« other Dominjcm* t3j« T nion J«ck. he Mid. stood for cr»n»tita•i"nj] la Alnca, the Lnion Jack !>ttx>d for o?oquc*t. If th« L'nion J«ck L&d been inciuded in the lris>b flay, the d:"•union *iii! Britiia wouM h*\j contmiicd- ' In cvudosioo. th« Miaial«r »*id: ~I cunnot fonret that oar independent .-:.»! i;« ccuki not h*\e been accomplished without th« full of British sUtf.-nwa. V\"hen the Union Jack flie*' on cTtjiii d-»v s to denole oar link witb th« British Commctn'wfeJTji. it will fli «if h th# consent of the Dutch a.nd the. Bnsi?h prr^>3<»!.." Thomas Smart. •who l<?d th<; \ Opposition, roamed the Ho«-c by declaring that arxunsent again>t the ] of the Union Jack could all *oro« future time be u?ed m~.ar.~l tic j rctenijon of the Enjiiffh unj-uaj*. Sir Thomas »a.id he pledged th«, !m.iltv of the Enriish peoples to a flar. ■<« hich combined the Union Jack «ithj the old Eepubliran da^s. Tli* Dutch and the kho had r«tablj?h<*d an imperishable record in th? <»reat War under the Union Jack, were! n<»nr entitled to lite under itTkc »pc*i.er appealed to the Prime | Minister, Hert.«np. to pat the £or«d of bis country before p»rtx conHγ. Hjiv. Labour for Pretoria.. <i«-n«mnced the proj-«?-cd reterendum ! a» "loaded ojcc." .