REFERENDUM PROBABLE IN SOUTH AFRICA
FLAG PROBLEM THREAT FROM LABOUR Dy Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright CAPETOWN, Thursday. The Minister of Justice, Mr. Tielman Roos, addressing a Labour meeting, said he believed the select Flag Committee would have been able to devise a scheme which would have satisfied the majority of South Africans. Mr. Barlow, a leading Labour member, speaking at the same meeting, said that if Labour were to be defeated at the next elections on the flag question, and if General Smuts were returned to power, Lhere would be the most terrible -industrial upheaval ever known in South Africa. “I understand,” he said, “that the Flag Committee was unable to reach a unanimous decision, and a report will be submitted and carried by the Government majority, which will propose a flag in which the Union Jack and the two old Republican Vierkleurs will be embodied. “This flag will replace the so-called ‘hot cross bun’ flag of the original Bill, and will be submitted to. a referendum.” —A. and N.Z.-Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 74, 18 June 1927, Page 1
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