HERTZOG ATTACKS BOTHA.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1726, 17 April 1913, Page 5

HERTZOG ATTACKS BOTHA.

IN UNION PARLIAMENT , demand for a dissolution. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Cape Town, April 15. During tiie Budget debate in tho Union House of Assembly, General Hertzog, who recently resigned from tho Cabinet, bitterly nssaifcfl the Government. He doscribed General Botha, the Prime Minister, as an autocrat who had been guilty of moral cowardice, and added that the Opposition was leagued in a conspiracy with General Botha. The latter, ho said, no longer represented his own people. He concluded his specch with a demand for a dissolution. General Botha replied calmly, inviting General Hertzog to propose a no-cou-fidenco motion. In a recent interview General llertzo or contradicted a statement of General Botha that they had agreed that lie (General i i. f? t 001,1(1 U3t Hie Cabinet, lint that as the people demanded his reinstatement he was willing to sink personal considerations and to submit to tho will of tho people, provided that General ijotha could find suitable terms honourable both to himself and to General Hertzog. A suggestion had Wen made through intermediaries that General' Botha and General Hertzog should meet and shako hands and wipo out tho past. Another suggestion was put forward by the Premier that he and General Hertzojj should issue a joint manifesto, but General Hertzog intimated that he could not enterrain tho idea, as it offered no solution or the question. Ho further stated that ll General Botha could oiler no solution he was prepared to meet tho Premier, and to namo one possible way out. A meeting thereupon look place, at which General Hertzog had suggested the formation of a new Ministry. General Hertzog intimated his intention to deal fully with General Botha later. He would not havo so much, he. declared, but Genera) Bothas statement had done him a great injustice with the people.