PROTECTORATES IN AFRICA
“ BRITAIN NOT BOUND TO TRANSFER”
SALISBURY. September 10. The Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations Uvir Patrick Gor-don-Walker) said to-day that Britain was not bound to hand the African protectorates to South Africa, but she would be ready to discuss the question it the Union ever wanted to. Mr Gordon-Walker, who is in Salisbury for talks on the proposed federation of Southern Rhodesia. Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland. said that the South Africa Act laid down that the King might—not shall—transfer the protectorates to the Union. All the South Africa Act did was to provide machinery for a transfer if all the parties concerned agreed. The British Government recognised that South Africa had concern in the future of the three protectorates, but the Government's policy had not changed. The territories would not be transferred without the consent of the British Parliament or without consultation with the white and African population.
Four Children Killed by Gas.—Four New York children were found dead in a flat yesterday, apparently the victims of gas from the kitchenette stove. The police said that the bodies were found by the children's mother, who had been away from the flat overnight.—New York. September 9.
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26524, 12 September 1951, Page 7
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