SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 December 1918, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

ACTION OF NATIONALISTS. OVER PEACE CONFERENCE. DISAPPOINTING RESULTS OF LOAN. Received Dec. 20, 7.25 p.m. Capetown, Dec. 18. A meeting of the central committee of the Nationalist Party, which was held at Bloemfontcin, decided to transmit to the King and President Wilson :u: expression of thanks that the war had ended, and the expectation of a durable peace on the principles of right and justice, and gratitude for the recognition of the right of every civilised nation to be free to adopt the principle of the restitution of rights and liberties which would be applied at the Peace Conference; also as to future international relations, and making an earnest appeal to the King for the application of these principles to the Cape, Natal, Orange Fv.e State, and Transvaal. The resolution adds that the meeting was convinced of the necessity for making clear the true position regarding tile demand for independence, knowing that a large section of the population, including tho great majority of the Dutchspeaking South Africans, whose desires have been otherwise misrepresented, had resolved to call a congress with a view to the nomination of a delegation to proceed to Europe to urge the application of the same principle to the South African provinces. A Native Congress at Johannesburg, after a resolution of thankfulness for victory and loyalty to the King, decided to send a delegation to England to jnak« representations to the Imperial authorities regarding the disabilities of the native# in the South African Union.

The response to the latest Union loan is disappointing, only about three and a quarter millions 'being Acul SA CafelftJsßg9fe. f