SOUTH AFRICA’S FLAG

Evening Star, Issue 19698, 27 October 1927, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA’S FLAG

THE DISPUTE SETTLED HAILED WITH BELIEF. Tress Association—By Telegraph—Copyright CAPE TOWN, October 25. The flap; settlement is now complete, and it has been accepted.by caucuses of the three parties. It has been publicly announced by Dr Malan, on the authority of General Hertzog, that the South African Party Caucus accepted it subject to assurances being given that the Union Jack would fly not only in the Union and the provincial capitals as provided, but also in the large centres of the Union, where the predilections of the people naturally point in that direction, and to tins General Hertzog readily agreed, also agreeing that so far as Natal was concerned the Union Jack should fly throughout the province on equal terms with the national flag The most important point in the settlement is that the Union Jack is now statutorily declared to he one of the flags of the Union. In the second place the shield disappears from the national flag as proposed in the draft Hill, and is replaced by the Union Jack and the old Republican flag as integral parts of the flag, occupying one-third of the area of the central white strip between the orange and blue horizontals. / The compromise is generally hailed with intense relief, though the design of the national flag is not received with enthusiasm.—Sydney ‘ Sun ’ Cable.