SOUTH AFRICA
DOMINION STATUS QUESTION. FOREMOST POLITICAL ISSUE. (Rec. 8.45 p.m.) Cape Town, October 12. Dominion status continues to be the uppermost political issue in the back veldt districts. The Premier, General Hertzog, speaking at Frankfort, said the GovernorGeneral represented not England's King but our King because the King could not be here and in England at the same time. “We are not British subjects, but the King is the bond of Britain and South Africa,” he said. General Hertzog paid a tribute to the advantage of British citizenship. Questioned as to the competency of South Africa to join an alliance against England, he replied that neither nation would be competent to form an alliance conflicting with thp League of Nations. The Minister for Justice, the Hon. J. de U. Ross, was more definite and declared at Johannesburg that independence was not the aim of the Nationalists who were gratified with the status on which to build the future. —Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20616, 15 October 1928, Page 5
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