SOUTH AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 74, 21 December 1918, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA

NATIONALIST PARTY'S DEMAND FOR INDEPENDENCE AN APPEAL TO THE KING (Rec. December 20, 7.5 p.m.) Cape Town, December IS. A meeting of the Central Committee of the Nationalist Party, heldat Bloemfontcin, decided to transmit to the King and President Wilson' an expression of thanks that,the war had ended, and the expectation of a durable pence on the principles of right and justice; gratitude for the recognition of the rights of every civilised nation to be free to adopt the principle of the restitution of rights and liberties, which would be applied at "ie Peace Conference, and also in future international relations, and making an tamest appeal to the King for the: application of these principles to the Cape of Good Hope, Natal,. the Orange Free State, and the Transvaal. The resolution adds:—"This .meeting is convinced of the necessity of. making clear the true, position regarding the demand for independence, knowing that the desires of n large section of the population, including the great majority of the Diitch-ipeaking South Africans, would otherwise be misrepresented." It , was resolved to call a congress, with a new to the nomination of a delegation to proceed to Europe, to urge the application of the same principle to the .South African provinces.—Ans.-N.Z. Cnblo Assn. ' DISABILITIES OF THE NATIVES DELEGATION TO VISIT ENGLAND. (Rec. December 20, -7.3 p.m.) Cape Town, December IS. A Native Congress at Johannesburg, after a rosolution of thankfulness for victory and loyalty to the Kiiig, decided to send a delegation to England to make reprcseo.tat.ions to the Imperial authorities regarding the disabilities of the natives in the South African Union.—Atts.N.Z. Cable Assn. latestlnion loan A DISAPPOINTING RESPONSE. ' (Rec. December 20, 7.5 p.m.) Cape Town, December IS. The response to the latest South African Union loan was disappointing, only about three millions and a quarter being subscribed.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.