SOUTH AFRICA
PERSISTENT DEMAND FOR INDEPENDENCE. Cape Town, April 1. General De Wet in a speech at Pretoria said: "We must be steadfast, in our determination to attain that which is not far off—our freedom. None could blame us for desiring to get back our 'independence." They would continue to kneel'before England, praying for independence, until she. became so tired of them that she would say, "Go, form your own Government." It was impossible for them to love the Union Jacjt, just as Englishmen living in the Transvaal could not love the Republican flag.— Reuter. , '
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 162, 5 April 1920, Page 5
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95SOUTH AFRICA Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 162, 5 April 1920, Page 5
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