SOUTH AFRICA AND BRITAIN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 22, 20 July 1911, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA AND BRITAIN

INDEPENDENT NATIONALITY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright. Capetown, July 18. The newspaper Friend, at Bloemfontein, which expresses the views of Mr. Steyn, the late President of the Orange Free State, in an article supporting the newspaper Volkstem on the neutrality question, remarks that if one principle more than another emeTges from the Imperial Conference it is the doctrine of independent nationality. The article represents Canada as demanding com•plete freedom to control its own policy in peace and war, and insists on the -same freedom for South Africa. AFRIKANDER POLITICIAN'S VIEW. Received 19, 10.30 pan. London, July 19. Mr. Chris Botha, a member of the Opposition in the Union Parliament, interViewed in London, denounced the Volkstem's utterances as most dangerous and entirely opposed to the maintenance of the Empire and antagonistic to the interests of the dominions. He confidently hoped that General Botha would early ffisavow the Volkstem's standpoint, and added that in the eveirtr of war the enemy's assent would be necessary, before the dominions were allowed to remain neutral.