WARMING UP.
ELECTION IN SOUTH AFRICA. THE SECESSION ISSUE. TaUcvoph—Aganeiatlon—CopjrrialUi lotmliui and N.Z. Cable Association. (Receive J May 16. 1.25 p.m.) CAPETOWN. May 15. The election campaign is warming •tip and the secession issue is becoming ■more and • '.tore prominent. The oft ij-epeated assertion that the I-abour-’ites' pact has killed secession is discounted by a statement made at General Smuts’s Rustenburg meeting nrhen Mr Piet Grobler, one of the most prominent Nationalist members of Parliament . repiving to General Smuts, maintained that under the pact the Nation foists were free to continue propaganda inside or outside Parliament, the only reservation being -that they must not take a vote. "* General Smuts several times repeated the question, but Mr Grobler stoutly maintained that there was the fullest liberty for propaganda in or out of Parliament. This statement has made a considerable impression, especially among the new British .ettlers in the district who had been assured by the Nationalists that secession was a dead issue.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17351, 16 May 1924, Page 11
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