CALL FOR UNITY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1942, Page 4

CALL FOR UNITY

IN DEFENCE OF SOUTH AFRICA MADE BY GENERAL SMUTS CEYLON IN GREAT DANGER. NEED OF ALL-OUT EFFORT IN UNION. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) JOHANNESBURG, May 3. A call for unity among the people of South Africa to share in repelling the danger from Japan was made by General Smuts in a speech. “Ceylon,” he said, “is in the greatest danger. The island may go the way of Crete and .danger may come to South Africa’s very shores. The time, therefore, J has come for the Union to make even greater efforts. I want the people to go all out. “We are not as strong in this country as Singapore,” General Smuts added, “but it was taken by the enemy. Let us hold life and everything else cheap in order to ensure the safety and security Of South Africa and the future of its people.” AMERICAN PROPOSAL EXPEDITIONARY FORCE FOR SOUTH AFRICA. VITAL STRATEGIC AREA. (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) BOSTON, May 3. Alongside General Smuts’s warning on the Japanese menace to South Africa, the “Christian Science Monitor” features a Cairo report stating that proposals that an American Expeditionary Force should be sent to South Africa are gaining advocates in military circles. The Union could accommodate 500,000 men. It would provide an excellent arms depository and training conditions in a most strategic location among the danger spots of Africa, Asia, the Indian Ocean and points further west. It would also protect the vital Cape shipping lanes.