TORE UP UNION JACK
EXCITED SOUTH AFRICANS NO HEARING FOR SMUTS By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright CAPETOWN, Saturday. The tearing to shreds of a Union Jack was one of .many incidents which marked a political meeting held at Bloemhof, in the Transvaal, where the Deader of the Opposition, General Smuts, was refused a hearing. The hall was raided by a large crowd of Nationalists, carrying the proposed new South African Union flag. A free fight occurred, the defenders using folding chairs and the attackers sticks and bottles. The latter gained possession of the platform, over which they hoisted the Government flag. Speaking at a later meeting General Smuts said the country was rapidly becoming a little Russia. Freedom of speech was confined to the members of the Nationalist Party. This is the second time General Smuts has been refused a hearing within a week.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 165, 3 October 1927, Page 9
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