OWN STATESMEN
AS DOMINIONS’ GOVERNORSGENERAL SOUTH AFRICA SUPPORTS CANADA AND FREE STATE By Telegraph.—Press association. Copyright. Cape Town, July 11. The Ministerial organ, “Die Burger,” states that the Union Government will support the intention of Canada ano the Irish Free State to bring up at the Imperial Conference the questions of appointing their own statesmen as Governors-General, and direct correspondence between the Dominion and Imperial Governments; also, the suggestion that each Dominion pay the expenses of its own representatives at the conference in order to leave them freer than as guests of the Imperial Government.—Reuter. THE FLAG QUESTION Cape Town, July 11. Speaking at Victoria West, the Minister of Agriculture (General J. C. Kemp) declared that if the Government failed to pass its Bills dealing with the natives, it would go to the country. Referring to the flag incident, he said that the South African Partv wanted a mock Vierkleur in the flag. Rather than have that the Nationalists would prefer the Union Jack so that thev could point to it and’tell their children that was the flag of the nation which. trampled the Vierkleur in the dust and set its foot on the neck of the Afrikanders.—Aus.N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 256, 13 July 1926, Page 12
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200OWN STATESMEN Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 256, 13 July 1926, Page 12
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