Africa
A CONCESSION TO REBELS
DEATH SENTENCE ELIMINATED.
Capetown, March 25. While the Indemnity Bill was in committee, Mr. Smuts moved to eliminate the death sentence in conection, with the rebellion, and hoped the country would respond to the Government's policy to let bygones be bygones. Mr; Smart, Leader of the Opposition, supported the amendment, with • the reservation that it should not apply to Maritz.
T'he Hertzopites gratefully supported, the amendment, and it was carried unanimously. The House voted .6%, millions for war expenses' t!o" March 31.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 247, 27 March 1915, Page 5
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