SMUTS’S WARNING
SnrTTT AFRICAN' SECESSIONISTS. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, June 2. (Received Juno 5. at 12.10 p.m.) General Smuts, speaking at various election meetings, strongly condemned the growing demons! rat ions against the South African Party candidates. Ho charged his opponents with aiming at secession, and declared that n the people were to submit to the aims of the secessionist leaders .South Africa would not deserve to_bo a white civilisation at all: it mightjis well revert to barbarism. The Opposition oolicy meant a huge row with the British Government am: the Empire. “You cannot," he said, “start secession without mobilising the whole Empire against you.’’ —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 18650, 3 June 1924, Page 4
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111SMUTS’S WARNING Evening Star, Issue 18650, 3 June 1924, Page 4
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