SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.
(b? cable—press association cophuqht.) (Australian akd k.z. cable association.) CAPE TOWN, July 16. General Smuts, addressing a meeting of his constituents, • said the elections had apparently been a great disaster tor them. But he pointed out that 153,000 votes had been cost for the South African Party, 111,000 for tho Nationalists, and 42,000 for Labour; yet j in spit© of this equality of votes, the Pact iind a majority of 23 members. 'Hie truest reflex of public opinion was the votes cast, and half South Africa stood behind the South African Party, which had 13,380 more votes than in tho 1921 election.
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18128, 18 July 1924, Page 9
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