AFRICAN FLAG DISPUTE.
FREE FIGHT AT MEETING UNION JACK TORN UP. GEN. SMUTS REFUSED A HEARING. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) CAPETOWN, October 1. ' The tearing to, shreds of a Union Jack was one of many incidents which marked a political meeting held at Bloemhof, in the Transvaal, where the Leader of the Opposition, General Smuts, was refused a hearing. The hall was raided by a large crowd of Nationalists carrying the proposed new SouLh African Union flag.
A free fight occurred, the defenders using folding chairs and the attackers sticks and bottles. The latter gained possession of the platform, over which they hoisted the Government flag. Speaking at a later meeting, General Smuts said the country was rapidly becoming a little Russia. Freedom of speech was confined to the members of the Nationalist Party. This is the second time General Smuts has been refused a hearing within a week.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17221, 3 October 1927, Page 7
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150AFRICAN FLAG DISPUTE. Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17221, 3 October 1927, Page 7
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