SOUTH AFRICA
GBNKRAIL SM'UITS RETURXS FROM 15AST AFRICA.A .afACIiNiIFICENa?' EJiOEPTIO^.' {.Renter's Telegrams.) (Rec. Feb. 13, 10.10 a.m.) • j CAPETOWN', Feb. 12. General Smuts was accorded a civic j •reception on his return from East Africa. ' 1 ■ ■■ "■ » Business was stispended. and lie/received a magnificent -welcome- from, five thousand persons assembled afc the . City Hail, ■ including [Lord Buxton,/'General ißotha, members -of • the : Cabinet, and hundreds'of wounded soldiers. ' ' i Addresses were presented on behalf. ..of the city, and also oh behalf of British/"lndians! ... General Smuts, replying, emphasised that South. Africa had secured. <i voice in thd disposal of the .African continent. .'South Africa' had pegged out . claims,; there'by establishing' her Tiqhts regardingthe future development of the continent-.' Tie hinted that there was still a -qjos-. sibilitV of General. Botha attending "tln> War Council. • •
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Nelson Evening Mail, 13 February 1917, Page 5
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