COALITION OR NOT?
•■'Vv: ' : ;;;; v .'. V?;;' ' I I SOUTH AFRICAN UNION.; MR. L? PHILLIPS "RE-ENTERS 'THE ' : .;:■■■■ '.'ARENA. - : ; -,•' ■.■; ";'!':■ ByTelegraoh—Press Asßoclatlbn-Oonyriglit. (Rec.. February 18,..0.5 a.m.): ';•.''■' ,';; Cape, Town, February 17. . '■'.Mr.': Lionel: Phillips,.,who : was : one;qf the' initiators and ohief workers :• for the South; African Union, though he has kept aloof from, controversial politics : during the past'four, years, ; has, now joined the Progressives;;,''. '.''' ;'■ .;'•.'. ; ■■'.'• ,'■:':. ': .'.•■,'.'■"■■;. :He hopes that; a; strong arid sound Op.position; will be:, established 0 if "General Botha and Dri Jameson find themselves unable to join forces for South "Africa's 'good..;;:'" : /■.,;;/ : ;':.':':: ; ::.;.''. •■%.:■■•
i , MR. PHILLIPS'S CAREER. ';•; . Mr. .Lionel Phillips'was one:of the Reform Committee of. the Outlanders in the old Johannesburg, and -with many others was arrested,; .after Dr.-.:. Jameson's abortive .'raid .in-1896,' .'on : : a- charge of high;treason. In April, 1896,- four of the 'ringleaders^were sentenced :'by '.' the Transvaal Judge - Gregorbwski..to ;death. One was Phillips, and the' others—equally well'known—were- Mr;' John Hays Ham-, raond,' Mri (now Sir) Geo. : Farrar,. .and Colonel ■ Frank Rhodes.' . The : sentences were afterwards'commuted'to' .imprisonment and banishment; : Mr. Phillips: is a parthor'.in.thp: 1 firm 'of :.We'rnher,.Beit' arid Company; and.' was. formerly President of the Johannesburg Chamber of Mines.' His ..wife 'has ". written "Some South.' African... Recollections,". ; '.'■-:■ '".."..
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 745, 18 February 1910, Page 7
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193COALITION OR NOT? Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 745, 18 February 1910, Page 7
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