A WARNING NOTE

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 230, 14 September 1935, Page 5

A WARNING NOTE

‘AFRICA NEVER FORGETS’ Appeal to Stay Italy’s Hand STIRRING OF BLACK RACES (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received H, 9 0 a.m.) GENEVA, Sept. 13. Mr. Theodore te Water, South African High Commissioner in London, speaking at the League Assembly, said that a new partition of Africa by European Powers was greatly to bo feared. Such a partition outside the League’s covering blanket was fraught with danger and with the mtnace of the black ' races going to war, with a consequent 1 reversion to barbarism. He referred to ! the long memory of the black man, and > said: “Africa never forgets and never i forgives injury or injustice.” The South African Government and all its peoples, black and white, viewed with deep concern the relentless march i of the disease of war, Mr. te Water • added He paid a warm tribute to the renaissance Signor Mussolini had achieved in Italy, and asked him to pause at the eleventh hour. The session adjourned ■ until to-morrow. Later, in a broadcast speech, Mr. te ' Water declared that South Africa, in the event of violation of the Covenant, would stand by the League, applying sanctions if members were unanimous on the point. The Associated Press correspondent at Geneva says that the mystic quality of Mr te Water’s speech deeply impressed the Assembly, notably his reference to the black man’s long memory' of inice and his warning that an attempt nscript the blacks of Africa might t in a rising for the overthrow of Europeans, as had been done beThe speech, adds the correspondent, carried all the more weight in view of Africa's trade relations with Italy.