NAURU ISLAND PHOSPHATES
AN UNRECORDED INCIDENT OP THE PEACE CONFERENCE. (Rec. November 13, 0.30 a.m.) Pretoria, November 11. In the course of a speech at the opening of the Agricultural Congress lit Pochofetroom, General Smuts referred to the Australian mandate over one of the Pacific islands, containing probaibly tho richest phosphate deposits in the world, no said that when Australia asked for the mandate at the Paris Conference ho put in a claim on behalf of the Union. "I Raid I did not seo why Australia should get all the phosphate and that if South Africa did not get it," smilingly added tho Premier, amid applause, "there would he trouble."—All3.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 42, 13 November 1919, Page 5
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112NAURU ISLAND PHOSPHATES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 42, 13 November 1919, Page 5
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