SOUTH AFRICA.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14650, 2 March 1918, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

GENERAL SMUTS' MISSION.

GENERAL BOTHA AND THE

NATIONALISTS,

(Reuters Telegrams.)

(Received Marcb 1, 9.50 p.m.)

Capetown, Feb. 28

The Assembly adopted General Botha's motion by 78 votes to 22 granting General Smuts leave of absence. The minority consisted of Nationalists.

The Premier emphatically declared that South Africa was an integral part of the Empire. He said the Nationalists could either do their duty or establish' a; republic. . He intended to stand by the Empire and do his duty.