NOVEL TACTICS

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 424, 4 May 1937, Page 2

NOVEL TACTICS

SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS M.P. At Meeting In Disguise Capetown, April 5. Mr Harry Lawrence, M.P. for the Capetown constituency of Salt River, has considerably brightened local politics by attending a meeting organised by a rival party heavily disguised as a Muslim. When Mr B. de Villiers, Nationalist M.P. for Stellenbosch, was addressing a meeting of coloured voters at Salt River there was a disturbance at the back of the hall, and it was found that Mr Lawrence, M.P. for the constituency, was present wearing a black beard and a fez. He unmasked himself, and the meeting broke up in disorder. Mr Lawrence explained later that he had learned that the Nationalists were trying secretly to undermine his position among his coloured supporters, and he had attended the meeting in order to discover what his opponents said about him and his party.