SOUTH AFRICA

Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 32, 7 February 1913, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA

■ '■■" ♦ HERTZOG'S SPEECHES INEXPLICABLE. INTERVIEW WITH GENERAL BOTHA. By Telegraph,— Frew Association.— Copy««lvt, CAPETOWN 1 , 6th February. The Prime Minister, General Botha, in an interview given Router's correspondent, stated that General' Hertssog's speeches and conduct were sometimes inexplicable. Instead of supporting t a policy of conciliation, he treated it with contempt and ridicule. It was especially General Hertzog's duty to avoid giving the impression that the interests of South Africans were in conflict with the interests of_ the Empire. A policy directed against the Empire might, in General Hertzog's view, be desirable in certain circumstances. Some suspicion attached to General Hertzog on the subject of conciliation, and it was particularly necessary for him to be careful in his public utterances. It was impossible for General Hartzog to serve with colleagues of whom he had spoken so bitterly arid offensively. General Hertzog had been demanding his (General Botha's) resignation, and the formation of a new Government in which General Botha nor General Hertzog should be members, and General Botha remarked that ho found the demand acceptable.

Steps are to be taken by the City Council to compel owners of property to cut back trees which overhang the footpaths. "There are a lot of horses galloping along our beaches, to the great danger of tho children," remarked CoiinciHor Fuller at the meeting of the City Council last night. "We are attending to that/* replied the Mayor, i