ANTI-WAR TREATY.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 19 June 1928, Page 9

ANTI-WAR TREATY.

SOUTH AFRICA’S ACCEPTANCE. (British Official Wireless.) ' RUGBY, June Id. . Sir Austen 'Chamberlain "lias transmitted to Air. Kay Atherton. United Sta tes' Charge cl ’Affairs, London, a message from General Hcrtzog. 'Minister of External Affairs for the Union of South Africa, gladly accepting on behalf of the (South African Government the invitation of the United States Government, to participate individually, and as an original signatory., in the proposed treaty for tlic renunciation of wa r. “In the expression of their willingness to 'be a party to .the proposed treaty,” adds General 'Hcrtzog. His Al.ajcs'ty 's‘Government in the Union of South Africa take it for granted that it is not intended to deprive any- party to the proposed treaty of any of its natural rights of self-defence, that the violations by any one of the parties of anv of file provisions of the proposed treaty will free the other parties from obligation to observe ’.its terms in respect of the party committing such violation, and the provision will be made rendering it quite clear that it is not intended that the Union of South Africa, by becoming a party to the proposed treaty, would be precluded from fulfilling, as a member of the Leagueof Nations, its obligations towards other members thereof under the provisions of the Covenant of the League. ’'