NOVEL TACTICS
SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS M.P. AT MEETING IN DISGUISE CAPETOWN, May 2. Mr Harry Lawrence, M.P. for the Capetown constituency of Salt River, has considerably brightened local politics by attending a meeting organised by a rival party heavily disguised as a Muslim. When Mr B. de Villiers, Nationalist M.P. for Stellenbosch, was addressing a meeting of coloured voters at Salt River there was a disturbance at the back of the hall, and ft was found that Mr Lawrence, M.P. for the constituency was present wearing a black beard and a fez. He unmasked himself. and the meeting broke up in disorder.
Mr Lawrence explained later that he had learned that the Nationalists were trying secretly to undermine his position among his coloured supporters, and he had attended the meeting in order to discover what his opponents said about him and his party.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 7
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