TORN TO SHREDS
UNION JACK IN AFRICA
SMUTS REFUSED HEARING
(United Press Asgociation.-rCopyright > i ■ CAPETOWN, Ist October. The tearing of the Union Jack to shreds was one of many incidents marking a political meeting at Bloemhof, Transvaal, where the former Premier, General Smuts, was refused a
hearing.: The hall was raided By. a large,- crowd of Nationalists carrying the proposed . new' Union flag. A free fight occurred, the defenders using folding chairs and the attackers sticks and' bottles. The attackers gained possession of the platform, over
which they hoisted the Government flag. Speaking at a later-meeting, General Smuts declared that the country was rapidly becoming a little Russia.' Freedom of speech was confined to the Nationalist Party. This was the second time General Smuts had been refused a hearing within a week. .
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 81, 3 October 1927, Page 9
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132TORN TO SHREDS Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 81, 3 October 1927, Page 9
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