SOUTH AFRICA.
INDEPENDENCE; demanded. HERTZOG'S HEROTCS. Received Jan. 18, 1.20 am. Capetown, Jan. 17. At the congress of tho National Party at Bloemfonteiu all the provinces were represented, General Hertzog presiding. He said he regarded the assertion thit South Africa had a free government as pure mockery The Union Government consisted of men who consulted solely imperial interests South Africa was nothing but a l'ootbal! of tlio Empire. He then voiced the f'a'ms of the Free State to independence The leaders of other provinces presented the cases of their respective provinces, the keynote being a demand for the reversal of the alleged injustice done in taking away the Eccr republics The separate provincial congresses then constituted a free 6tate congress, and adopted a resolution demanding the restoration of their former independence, 'and sending two delegates to request 1 the Ivmg to grant sw.li restoration. Hertzog and De Wet were elected Free State delegates
Tho Transvaal congress similarly demanded independence and appointed two delegates. The Cape congress adjourned. —Renter
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1919, Page 5
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168SOUTH AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1919, Page 5
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