SOUTH AFRICAN REVOLT
BITTER SPEECH BY HERTZOG
ATTACK ON PREMIER SMUTS
(By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) {Australian and N'.Z. Cable Association),
CAPETOWN, April 6.
In the course of an extremely bitter speech on the second reading of the Indemnity Bill, General Hertzog attributed tlie whole responsibility of the recent bloodshed to General _ Smuts, whom he accused'of letting things develop into disturbances so that he could smash trades unionism. General Smuts’s footsteps, ho said, were dulled with blood. They lived hr a. country of murder and assassination. General Hortzog was several times railed to order by the Speaker. He moved to discharge the order for the second reading and refer the subject matter to a select committee.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 7 April 1922, Page 5
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