"AS GOOD AS HIS BOND"
BOTHA'S WORD TO THE EMPIRE. (Rec. January 28," '5 p.m.) London, January 27. Speaking at tlio Victoria Loagiie, Mr. jcwis Harcourt (Secretary of State for :he Colonies') said that "snnio misguided 'ools had thought that when England jecame involved in war India would nutiny. There would have been ■ a mutiny," he added, "if tho Indians had not been permitted to fight with us." Some hours hoforo war was declared, General Botha invited tho Imporial Government to romoyo the British troops from South Africa, undertaking that their own defence forces would defend the country themselves. The Union Government's offer was accopted, in the certain knowledge that Botha's word was as good as Botha's bond, and so, uidoed, proved.—"Tkuos" and Sydney "Sun" Servicer
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2371, 29 January 1915, Page 5
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