SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 33, 7 February 1913, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS.

GENERAL HERTZOG’S ATTITUDE. (By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press association.) Capetown, February 6. Reute(f reports that in an interview General Botha stated that General Hertzog’s speeches and conduct were sometimes inexplicable. Instead of supporting a policy of conciliation, he treated it with contempt and ridicule. It was especially General Hertzog’s duty to avoid giving an impression that the interests of South Africans were in conflict with those of the Empire, and that her policy was directed against the Empire, It might, in General Hertzog’s view, be desirable in certain circumstances. Some suspicion attached to General Hertzog’s attitude on the subject of conciliation. It was particularly necessary for him to bo careful in his public utterances. It was impossible for General' Hex'tzog to serve witli colleagues of whom he had spoken so bitterly and offensively. General Hertzog is demanding General Botha’s resignation and the formation of a new Government, of which neither General Botha nor General Hertzog shall be members. General Botha found the demand acceptable.