SOUTH AFRICAN BY-ELECTION
BLOW FOR SMUTS' GOVERNMENT Eeeeived Friday, 11:10 p.m. CAPETOWN, Jan. 17. The Government has lost the Hottentots Holland hy-election to the Nationalists by 637 votes/ This is a serious hlow to .Field Marshal Smuts for the electorate was regarded as a United "Party seat and the party expected to retain it by several hundred votes. The Nationalists fouglit the election largely 011 the colonr issue, accusing the Smuts' Government of un-South African liheralism.
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Chronicle (Levin), 18 January 1947, Page 5
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