SOUTH AFRICA’S FLAG
NO HOPE OF SETTLEMENT. HERTZOG ATTACKS SMUTS. Capetown. Sept. 26. General Hertzog, in a speech at Pretoria, shattered any hopes of a peaceful settlement of the flag ques tion. He displayed an extraordmar arily truculent arrogant spirit. The Premier admitted that when he le turned from the Imperial Conference he desired to postpone for some years the flag question. but- this he luund impor siblc. “We dare not wait any longer for the people’s flag for the people of South Africa. We see disunity and bitterness caused already, and therefore it is necessary to put a period to that fee.ing. ’ ’ General Hertzog proceeded violent ly to attack General Smuts, describing him as the head of an Empire group. “We want.peace.” he continued. “and therefore the sooner we settle the flag question the better.” He ascribed the opposition to the flag to the old jingo spirit, hating the National movement. If the Government lost at the referendum it would by no means be the end of the flag question, for no National spirit was ever kept down by a foreign jingo spirit. “The Government will not take a single step to make the smallest amendment,” declared the Premier inconclusion. —Sydney “Sun” cable).
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 28 September 1927, Page 6
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