SNUB FOR HERTZOG

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2426, 3 April 1915, Page 8

SNUB FOR HERTZOG

CENSURE MOTION FROZEN OUT ' Cape Town, March 31. In the debate on General Hertzog's •■esolution criticising the Government's, actions, Mr. J. X. Merriman declared that the Government was not deserving of censure. He moved "the previous question," and this was carried. [In tho Union Assembly on March •11, General Hertswg gave notice of a jesolution charging the Government "with unconstitutional acts in detaining members of Parliament without formulating charges against them, and proclaiming martial law without summoning Parliament.! UNION FORCES IN THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY, IMPORTANT POINTS OCCUPIED. (Rec. April 2,, 3.30 p.m.) . _. Caps Town, April 1. The Union Forces occupy two important neks, giving access to the /.us (about 100 miles due east of Luderitz Bay). The Germans had previously withdrawn. FINANCIAL'STABILITY OF THE UNION. ' SPLENDID OUTPUT OF GOLD. (Rec. April 2, 5.15 p.m.) . . ■ London, April 1. The President of the Chamber of Mines at Johannesburg.remarked on the extraordinary stability of South Africa. The command of the sea enabled'work to proceed normally, despite the fact 1 that a colossal war was being waged. The' tonnage' mill at the gold mines for the last six months was the greatest in the history of the land, and the production was likely- to increase.— "Times" and Sydney "Sun" services.