RIVAL GENERALS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 97, 28 August 1913, Page 5

RIVAL GENERALS.

SOUTH AFRICAN CRISIS.

ENTH USIASTTC MEETIN G S

(By Electric Telegraph— l CopyrighT ] (United Press Association, j

August 27

The acute situation at Huston burg is almost unique in South African politics. The threats were apparently responsible for the people upsetting General Botha’s meeting. The hotels are crowded, and surplus visitors are accommodated in tent, and wfggons in the -principal streets.

Tlie fact, that Mr Delay, who has hitherto been silent, presided at tin meeting, is regarded as significant.

Extraordinary ovations were accorded to General Botha in the back country districts, which were supposedly Hertzogian strongholds. General Botha ridiculed the idea ol resignation when ho had a commanding ,majority of 27. Regarding Im perialism, he remarked that he was a South African above all, but ylid no go about saying what he would do i tiio Imperial Government did anything conflicting with South . African inter ests. General Hertzog reminded bin of a man on his honeymoon, sayin; what he would do if his wife was nn unfaithful. The meeting, by a bimajority, carried a vote of confident in Genera! Botha, and carried bin shoulder-high, amid wild ovations, t> his hotel, half a mile away. Subsequently General Hertzog ad dressed 1000 superiors. He declam that one of the coming questions win whether they were to have a Federal Imperial Parliament In which Sontl Africa had one representative per 0. representatives in England, or who ther tho South African Parliamen should be reduced in its status to ; provincial body, allowing the Fedora Parliament to deal with Customs. Ap parently Genera! Botha’s reply w.oult be “Yes.” Replying to the questio of a possibility of conflict with Britan unless they' conciliated her,' Genera Hertzog argued that the Constitution could never be withdrawn. The Im ])?rial Government always kept its pro raises to the Dominions. The meeting resolved that the only solution was M Stoyn’s recommendation in favour o General Botha’s resignation.

BOTH TO BE TURNED DOWN. (Received 10.35 a.m.) Capetown, August 27. At a meeting held by General Hert zog at Rustenberg, those present car lie da .vote of confidence in Genera Hortzog, and also a resolution in fav our of a now leader who would hi neither Hoi'tzog nor Botha.