SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS

Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 224, 18 June 1929, Page 11

SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS

GERMAN PRESS COMMENT PLEA FOR SYMPATHY FOR COUNTRYMEN x (United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright) Australian Press Association. (Rec. June 17, 10.10 p.m.) London, June 17. The “Morning Post’s” Berlin correspondent says there is curiously little comment on the South African elections.

. The “Koelnische Zeitung” says: “The results show that the efforts of South Africa towards independence, and even complete separation, are consolidating. So far as we Germans are concerned we would like to address a request to General Hertzog. If he looks back a cbuple of decades he will recall the bitterness of his countrymen against the victorious English, and he will recall that the sympathies of the Germans were largely with the Boers. We hope General Hertzog will keep these things in mind when delegations from South-West Africa meet him, and that he will show them the same sympathy his countrymen received from the Germans in South Africa’s hour of need.”