SUPPLY OF PHOSPHATES.
AUSTRALIA'S RICH REWARD. SOUTH AFRICA'S CLAIMS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Received Nov. 13, 12.20 a.m. Pretoria, Nov. 11. In the course of a speech at the opening of the Agricultural Congress (it Poelieftroom. General Smuts referred to the Australian mandate over one of the Pacific Islands, containing probably the richest phosphate deposits ill the world. He said that when Australia asked for the mandate nt the Paris conference he put in a claim on behalf of the Union. "I said I did not see why Australia should get all the phosphate and that if South Africa did not get it," smilingly added the Premier amid applause, ''there would be trouble."—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1919, Page 5
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114SUPPLY OF PHOSPHATES. Taranaki Daily News, 13 November 1919, Page 5
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