AFRICAN POLITICS
THE SEPARATION ISSUE. “WAIT AND SEE.” (By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) CAPETOWN, May 6. (Received May 7, 8 p.m.) Mr C. Roos, chairman of the Transvaal Nationalist Party, speaking at Pretoria, advocated building up a defence force, including a trained army of 5,000 men. Dr Malan, Leader of the Cape Nationalists, speaking at Parow, said that there could not be a Republic unless the people, by a referendum, so decided in favour of it. .Asked what would happen after the first five years during the agreement with the Labour Party which prevented the raising of the question of the Republic, he said: “We shall see.”
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Southland Times, Issue 19238, 8 May 1924, Page 5
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