NOT TO BE DIDDLED!

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 78, 23 June 1927, Page 13

NOT TO BE DIDDLED!

SMUTS AND THE FLAG “HERTZOG NO PATRIOT” BITTER SPEECHES iv Cable. —Press Association Copyright CAPETOWN, Tuesday After a day of bitter speeches on the Union's flag problem, General Hertzog, Premier, declared that it was useless to expect the Opposition to compromise on the question He announced that he would withdraw the clause in the Flag and Nationalitv Bill providing for a special conference in August, and put the Bill t?me ÜBh With no further waste of General Smuts said the Premier was no patriot in moving the passage of the Bill, and declared that the chained devil of the Nationalist Party came out daring the testing time on critical occasions. A further development of the controversy is an amendment by the labour wing, proposing to remove the restrictions as to flying the Union Jack on a few specific occasions, and to provide instead for its being flown oßcially all the year along with the >ew domestic flag. The Government, it is believed, is prepared to accept the amendment u a concession to its Labour allies. General Smuts asserted that the Government’s latest flag was a transparent fraud, and that South Africa would not be diddled in this way in » matter affecting the deepest sentiments of all the people.—A. and N.Z.