SOUTH AFRICAN FLAG

Evening Star, Issue 19271, 9 June 1926, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN FLAG

KTXG RECEIVES PARTICULARS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright CAPE TOWN, June 8. (Received Juno 9, at 8.50 a.m.) In the Assembly Dr Malan announced that the Governor-General Had sent to London, for His Majesty’s information, details of the National flag design, also the clause in the Bill dealing with the flying of tho Union Jack and tho national flag on official occasions. The Minister added that advice had been received that these matters had been duly laid before tho King.—Reuter. DEFENDED BY LABOR LEADER. CAPE TOWN, June 8. (Received June 9, at 12.10 p.ra.) In a letter to the Labor Party, Mr F. H. P. Creswell, leader of tho party, who is Minister of Labor m the Hurtzog Government, defends his attitude on the flag question. Ho declared that it is untrue that the Union Jack would bo hauled down as a symbol of South African nationality. South _ Africa should have flags lor both sections of the people, or for neither. The Union Jack would recall painful memories to the Dutch section; therefore both sections could not stand before it on an equal footing. The Flag Bill maintained the Union Jack as a symbol of relations with the Empire, but it established another flag as a symbol of South African nationality, without any reminder of past differences. He admitted that at first he thought that a combination of British and Republican flags would he best, but he was now convinced that he had to recognise the feelings of the other side. He concluded by denouncing the agitation as having been engineered by tho South African Press and politicians. Reutei.