LANGUAGE TEST IN THE TRANSVAAL.
OFFICIALS MUST SPEAK DUTCH. , BY 'TEI^GBiPH—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COTTEIGnT, ,■> London, December. 18. , Tho Secretary States, for tho Colonies (Lord Elgin) endorsos tho-Transvaal's policy requiring ' -officials' in country districts to spoak Dutoli. 1 ; . ' , ' ■ ! "The, "Standard" '(Conservative) soriio time ago printed statements from members of tho South African .Constabulary to tlio effect that "English Government servants aro being thrown out every whoro," iliid that the old officials of the' South rAfrican , Republic aro "swarmmi* bank." On this. the'" Standard" cofrimeuted: "The.-; plain truth . is ;that,, our British fOllow-subjoets in South Africa are ashamed of the ,ver'y;',namfe. of. Englishmen." The " Standard" more,;re'cflntly printed a.Stateineut by an '. dx-ofiicor of tho . Sohth African C6ustabnlary ; that "all the' non-Dutch' speaking men. will; get pushed." ' ~. .t.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 74, 20 December 1907, Page 7
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