NO PLACE LIKE HOME.
BOERS WISH TO RETURN FROM PORTUGUESE TERRITORY. (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) Received this day, 12.30 p.m. CAPETOWN, February 24. Four hundred Boer families, numbering 3000 individuals, who trekked from the Transvaal to Angola, are, in-conse-quence of an alleged breach of faith on the part of the'Portuguese relating to the titles of their farms, the education or their children, and their language threatening to return to the Union. Three delegates have concluded 'in interview Avith the Administrator or South-west Africa and the Union Secretary for Lands, at which they described* the position of the settlement as intolerable. They stated that they acted as a buffer between marauding natives and the Portuguese and were given no rights. The Administrator offered land to a hundred families, but the Union must bear all expenses. Cabinet is considering the matter.
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Levin Daily Chronicle, 25 February 1928, Page 5
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