TRIUMPH FOR BOTHA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume L, Issue 14744, 25 October 1915, Page 5

TRIUMPH FOR BOTHA.

THE CAPE ELECTIONS. Press Association.—Telegraph—Copyright. Received October 25, noon. CAPETOWN, October 24. The final election figures arc:— Bothaites 54 Unionists 40 Nationalists 27 Independents 5 Labour 4 (Tile Unionists support Botha’s war policy. It is highly satisfactory to hear that the general elections have resulted in the return of a majority pledged to support General Botha. The feature of the elections was the complete t collapse of Labour in the great urban constituencies, where there acre large Unionist majorities, 'fho war has nothing finer to show than the devotion of Botha and Smuts to their duty, and their sacrifice of their feelings to the bitter requirements of honour. To crush the rebellion they had to tight and kill old friends and old comrades of the war of fifteen years ago, but they never hesitated for a moment. That was, however. only a tragic incident in their long and heroic fight to make the spirit of unity triumph over the evil forces of race-hatred and disunion.]