SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1939, Page 5

SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

FEARS OF DISTURBANCE RECEDING THE INCORPORATION BILL. CRITICISED BY DR MALAN. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright LONDON, April 20. The Windhoek (South West Africa) correspondent of “The Times” says fears of a disturbance on Herr Hitler’s birthday are receding, following an instruction from- the leader of the German community to all Germans to be on their best behaviour. A Cape Town message, referring to the Government’s Bill to incorporate the South West African Police in the Union Police Force, states that Dr Malan, Opposition Leader, said that the Government’s action suggested the incorporation of South West Africa as a province of the Union. This would have the gravest international repercussions, he added. POLICE MERGER DEFENDED BY UNION MINISTERS. DR MALAN’S OBJECTIONS. (Received This Day, 10.40 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, April 20. General Hertzog, in the Assembly, in the course of the second reading debate on the South-West African Police Incorporation Bill, said: We should flee from South-West Africa as soon as from the Union. We shall protect the territory as we protect our own nationals. ■General Smuts urged that the measure should be regarded as the Union’s gift of good government to South-West Africa. Dr Malan (Leader of the Opposition) in.moving that the Bill be read in six months’ time, said the amalgamation was contrary to the Union’s policy of increasing the territory’s selfgovernment. It was a far-reaching constitutional change, at the worst possible time. The Government could have dealt with the situation without revoking existing rights.