HERTZOG'S VISIT, TO PARIS

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 227, 19 June 1919, Page 5

HERTZOG'S VISIT, TO PARIS

HIS DISRUPTION PROPOSALS FLAT REFUSAL BY MR. LLOYD GEORGE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Pretoria, June 15. The lobby correspondent of the "Volkstein," a Government organ, gives circumstantial details of tho interview of tho Nationalist deputation with Mi'. Lloyd George. President Wilson declined to grant an interview. Hen , ITertzog, as spokesman, claimed the restoration or tho 'independence- of the Free. State and the Transvaal as regards Natal and the Cape. Ho based this claim on the Nationalist resolutions and the principle of self-determination. Mr. Lloyd George replied in .writing, lie absolutely refused to entertain a request for the disruption of tho "Union, which was founded by solemn covenant, and could not be broken even if the entire Dutch-speaking population demanded it."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. NATIVE RIGHTS" iTsOUTH AFRICA DEMAND FOB REDRESS. Cape Town, Juno 15. A deputation from (he African Political Organisation interviewed the ActingPremier, and represented the grievances of the coloured population. They complained particularly about the conditions in the Free State, which was described as a -slave State, and also the prohibition of coloured representatives sitting in Parliament. .The deputation declared that serious discontent was prevalent anions the coloured people. The Acting-Premier urged patience. He believed that the Native. Administration Bill, which would shortly be again before Parliament, would provide the Rorm of the solution. A conference would also shortly deal with, the coloured labour question—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.