SOUTH AFRICAN HELP.
" CAPE TOWN, May 15. Parliament has agreed to grant , £IOO 000 for the relief of distress in t the 'Low Countries. The Premier (General Smuts) roused the House when he invited Queen Wilhelmina and the Royal Family to i find asylum in South Africa in return for something they did for Paul % Kruger, the Boer leader. , Paul Kruger,- who was President of Ihc c Transvaal Republic, loft for Europe after B'ocmfonlein and Pretoria had been oeeun pictl by the British ill 1900. during the e Boer War. He was given refuge ill 0 Utrecht (Holland), where' he endeavoured r iu vain to induce European Powers to o| intervene on. his behalf. _.y...
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 142, 16 May 1940, Page 9
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115SOUTH AFRICAN HELP. Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 142, 16 May 1940, Page 9
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