AFRICAN STATES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22775, 8 July 1937, Page 11

AFRICAN STATES

QUESTION OF TRANSFER DEMAND BY THE UNION BRITAIN REPROACHED By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received July 7, 0.33 p.m.) LONDON, July 6 A message from Capetown states that the Prime Minister, General Hertzog, in an interview reproached the British Government for withholding the transfer of the native protectorates of Basutoland, Bechuanaland and Swaziland to the Union.

General Herlzog alleged that Britain was playing with the question. He said he had received a written assurance two years ago that the transfer might be possible in a few years. "Now," said the Prime Minister, "I learn that it will be a long time before tho transfer is possible. The Union does not want to have recourse to the South African Act to request the King, by decision in Parliament, to accede to the transfer. The consequences of such a step would be so incalculable that I am not accepting the latest British reply as final." The diplomatic correspondent of the Morning Post states that the British position briefly is that there can be no transfer until the natives have been fully consulted and adequate discussion has occurred in the British Parliament.