SOUTH AFRICA

Evening Star, Issue 20194, 6 June 1929, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA

ELECTION CAMPAIGN OPENS ADDRESS BY GENERAL SMUTS. Press Association—By Telegraph —Copyright. CAPE TOWN, June 5. General Smuts opined the last week of the election campaign with a great demonstration in the City Hall, which was packed. Loud speakers carried his speech to minor halls, and still thousands were unable to gain-admittance. General Smuts stressed the fact that the surpluses resulted from over-taxa-tion, particularly of the food and the clothing of the poor. He accused the Government of prostituting the Civil Service, and instanced mscs of deserving servants being passed over for political henchmen. He stressed the point that General Hertzog’s bogey ol a native menace stirred up strife and deserved punishment by the electorate. Peace gave an opnortunity for constructive work, but General Hertzog manufactured danger. General Smuts pledged his party to the .maintenance of this solemn settlement by a national convention until it was changed in an equally solemn manner by another convention. He pointed out that large native territories did nob belong to tho Union and that the Union policy would react on Rhodesia, and Centra! Africa General Smuts read a message from Tanganyika stating: “General Heitzog’s policy will deliver us to barbarism. We want t" join hands with yon to build up white civilisation. In concluding, General Smuts appealed for a larger outlook, not only in Africa, hut throughout the Empire. “ Let ns follow the example of Canada and Australia. Let us say good-bye to disputes and the bitterness of the past; let us bend our energies to the task and make a grea* contribution to ptogress in South Africa the Empire, and the world.”—Australian Press Association.