SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 16725, 28 April 1920, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA.

GOVERNMENT THREATENED. BY NATIONALIST-LABOUR COMBINATION. By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received April 2S, 1.35 p.m.) CAPETOWN, April 27. A crisis is threatened over the Profiteering Bill. Besides the Labour amendment cabled an amendment was moved on behalf of the Nationalist Party asking that the Bill bo discharged and referred to a select coipmittee. General Smuts has determined that the Bill should go to the second reading, after which hit is willing to refer it to a select committee. The Nathmaibts and Labourites are determined to press the amendments and the groups ye so evenly divided that the issue is,doubtful. The Government’s hope is that the Labour amendment will be unlikely to find support outside its own ranks.—Aus.-N,Z. Cable Assn. AN IMPROBABLY STORY. (Received April 28, I.SO p.m.) CAPETOWN, April 27. The Nationalist organ Onsvaderland states that during the German South-West-Africa compaign the British military authorities! were informed that a largo quantity of diamonds were in the possession of the German Governor, Seitz, who refused to surrender them on the ground that they were the property of the German Government. Seitz was'arrested, whereupon he disclosed tlja hiding-place 'of over _ 7500 carats of diamonds, which the British Government seized.