SOUTH AFRICAN ELECTIONS
INTENSE BITTERNESS AEOUSEP. FORECAST OP PARTIES, " -f (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON, October (Received Oct. 19, at 5.5 ; ' Tho Times correspondent at Capetownreports that there is unparalleled .bitterness over the elections. Out of; 130 seatg,- ; only eight are uncontested. A complete split in the old South African Partyj<jindicated. An analysis ,of. the contests '% shows that 86 Ministerialists, 83 Nationalists, 39 Unionists, and 49 Labour candidates nave come forward. There are only three three-cornered contests. The. two parties have put aside differences until the; war is finished, for the purpose ofoombating the common; enemy. The Na- ): tionaligt speakers' malignity has aroused ■ furious antagonism against: General Boihay \ particularly among' the/poorer ignorant/Dutch. > It is L prefy diet the'results of the voting .on Wednea-N. day, but a severe setnbackyig: pected. The' thinks^hV; "■:. Ministerialists will master >50 ; members,; -' which, if there are nearly • 30} DriibrustsV ••. will command control of the House:; /\v
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 16519, 20 October 1915, Page 4
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