ELECTION NEAR.

Press, Volume XLIV, Issue 19391, 17 August 1928, Page 11

ELECTION NEAR.

THE LEADERS' VIEWS. SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS. (uiim paxss association—bt kucctsic TXLEOaiTH—COfTBIOnT.) (Received August 16th, 7.5 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, August 15. Tho General Election of 1929 is casting shadows on tho political situation. Colonel Cresswell, speaking at Johannesburg, anticipates tho breaking of the pact if the Nationalists jump the scat* at present held by Labour. The latter must arrange matters so that neither of the other Parties have a big majority. Meanwhile, General Smuts is succes*fully touring the country Speaking in the Free State he stressed the urgency of tho Dutch and the English marching forward as brothors. "Lot us accept tho new status nnd leavo well alone,' he said. "Australia started long after Africa, and, thanks to a lack of disunion, i* now ahead of us, whilo Canada, still younger, is well on the wnv to becoming the greatest state in the world." He visualised the United St-ites of South and Central Africa, paying tribute to Mr Cecil Rhodes for keeping the door to the north open when Germany, as proved later, would have established herself.—Australian Press Association.