WOULD BANISH UNION JACK FOREVER.
tjy Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. A.P.A. and Sydney M Sun ** Cable. CAPE TOWN, October 5. General Ilertzog. speaking on the dag question at Bloemfontein, said that if the Flag Bill were defeated at the referendum the Nationalists would regard it as evidence that their independence was being ridiculed by British Jingoes. The result would be, he continued, that the Union Jack would become an object of detestation to the Dutch in South Africa and the struggle for the flag would be waged more than evei, with vigour and bitterness. The verdict would banish the Union Jack for ever from South African national af fairs. The Press describes the speech as closing the last door to a rapprochement.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18280, 7 October 1927, Page 4
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