NAURU PHOSPHATES
SOUTH AFRICA'S CLAIM TO ' A SHARE.
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.—COPiBIdHt.) (AUSTRALIAN -NEW ZSALAND " CABLE ASSOCIATION.)
PRETORIA, 11th November. In the course of a speech at the opening of tlje Agricultural Congress of Pochefstroofa, General Smuts referred to the Australian mandate over one of the Pacific Islands, containing- probably the richest phosphate deposits in the world. He said that when Australia asked for the mandate at the Paris Conference he (jut in a claim on behalf of the Union. "I said I did not see why Australia should get all the phosphate, and that if South Africa did not get it," smilingly added "the Premier, amid applause, "there would be trouble."
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Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1919, Page 6
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111NAUftt PHOSPHATES Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 116, 13 November 1919, Page 6
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