SOUTH AFRICA.
THE NEW CAMPAIGNI HOUSE UNANIMOUS. Capetown, Dec. 7. Mr. Smuts, in the Assembly, said that recruiting had been successful beyond the highest expectations, and would enable the Union to dispatch the necessary forces to East Africa and also reinforcements. He hoped the campaign would soon result similarly to that in South-West Africa.
Mr. Jagger estimated that six million sterling per annum would cover the entire cost of the contingents. Mr. Hertzog deprecated expenditure on the East African campaign, and declared that .South Africa wanted not war but peace. General Botha reiterated that they were bound to fight in order to maintain their liberty. It was absolutely impossible to remain neutral, lie added that had a real civil war broken out the man, responsible would have been Hertzog, who was a rebel at heart. Of course there was no question of annexing German East Africa, though the Union would doubtless be consulted as to its ultimate disposal. (Cheers.)
The House endorsed the Government's policy without a division.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 December 1915, Page 5
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