REPUBLICAN MADNESS IN SOUTH AFRICA
GENERAL BOTHA ON THE NATIONALISTS. Cape Town, July 30. General Botha, Premier of South Africa, addressing his constituents, donou.'ioced tho . Nationalist agitation against the "Imperial I'ederal Council' as a bogey. No one in South Africa, ho said, wanted such a council. .General ilertzog's theory that a Republic should bo obtained by a bare majority vote was .auiastic, as a bloody war would result ironi tampering with the flag on a simple majority. Ho mentioned that both Kruger and Joubert had told him in the olden days .that they would a hundred times rather have the Enyltsh than : the Germans'.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 268, 1 August 1918, Page 5
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