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MENACE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
CAPETOWN, Sept, 12. The Minister of the Interior (Mr H. Lawrence), endorsing the warning by the Prime Minister (General Smuts) that the Government intended to use full powers to curb subversive activities, detailed actions of the Ossewabrandwag organisation, formed os an Afrikaans cultural society. Subversive elements appointed guards for public utility buildings with badges representing them to l>e soldiers, he said. Attempts had been made to tamper with the loyalty of the police, railway employees, and soldiers, and to obtain military information and arms. The Ossewabrandwag organisation’s “wild men” obviously were getting out of hand. General Smuts was determined to maintain internal security.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 246, 14 September 1940, Page 7
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109SUBVERSIVE BODY Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 246, 14 September 1940, Page 7
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