IN SOUTH AFRICA

Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1939, Page 8

IN SOUTH AFRICA

GENERAL SMUTS’ CABINET. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] CAPE TOWN, September 6. The acceptance of General Smuts’ amendment led to cheering in the streets. Generals Smuts and Hertzog were both members of a Coalition Government formed in 1933; General Hertzog’s Nationalist and General Smuts’ South African Parties hold 109 of the 150 seats in the House. General Smuts’ supporters favour tile severance of relations with Germany, while the Opposition, consisting of Dr. Malan’s New Nationalists (otherwise Republican) Party, which holds 27 seats, voted for General Hertzog. General Smuts is expected to include the Dominion Party, holding ten seats, and the Labour Party, with four seats, in the new Cabinet. The new Cabinet consists of the following members: — Prime Minister, External Affairs, and Defence: General Smuts. Finance and Education: Mr. J. H. Hofmeyer. Commerce and Industry: Mr. H. Stuttaford. Harbours and Railways: Mr. C. F. Sturrock. Native Affairs: Colonel Denys Reitz. Agriculture and Forestry: Colonel Collings. ' ’ • ■ ■ Interior and Public Health: Mr. H. Lawrence. Post and Telegraphs and Public Works: Mr. C. F. Clarkson. Labour'and Social Welfare: Mr. W. B. Madeley. Lands: Senator Conroy. Justice: Dr. Colin Steyn. Mines: Colonel Stallard. ' Minister without portfolio: Major Van Wer Byl. GERMANS INTERNED.. LONDON, September 6. North Rhodesian Germans have been interned: DECLARATION OF WAR. LONDON, September 6. The Ministry of Information confirms that South Africa has declared war. ■ '