SOUTH AFRICA.
GENERAL SMUTS' WORK
(Router's Telegram
(Received Feb. 27, 8 n.m.)
Capetown, i'Vib
Hie ♦Assembly adopted (Jt'iiorai Botha's motion granting leave of absence to General Smuts by 78 to 22.
The Nationalists strongly opposed the motion, declaring that they woro not concerned' with what General Smuts was doing for the British Empire. They wanted to know what be was doing as a Minister of tho 'Orion.
General Botha replied that p*«aco might come at any time, and Genera?. Smuts' would then look after South Africa's interests at the Peace Conference.
Rebutting the Nationalists' complaint, General Botha said that as an integral part of the Empire, South Africa had to do things which m ordinary circumstarcea might not have been dreamt of. He intended to stand to tie Empire because South Africa a future depended thereon.
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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14648, 28 February 1918, Page 5
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136SOUTH AFRICA. Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14648, 28 February 1918, Page 5
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