SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14529, 5 October 1917, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.

NATIONALIST CONGRESS

HERTZOG THE IRRECONCILABLE.

(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)

Capetown, Oct. 3. At the Nationalist Congress at Bloem-

fontein General Hertzog, leader of tho

party, said that German and English

Imperialists were equally intolerant. Thnre was no necessity "lor South?' Africa to participate in the war. Bid it pay Africa to belong to the Empire? He held that it did not. The Government's policy had caused a revolutionary spirit, but he did not believe the people were so stupid as to entertain revolutionary set ernes. They had a free constitution, but not free Ministers, who were only the agents of the British Government.