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日肆拾月叁年九廿百九千歳英·
S. AFRICA'S TREATY gain by the conclusion of the ARTIFICIAL COTTON
treaty.
Why should Ger- WITH GERMANY. many be so anxious to conclude z
special treaty with South Africa 1
A SQUABBLE BETWEEN
POLITICIANS.
S BRITAIN BEING SHUT
OUT?
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Capetown (U.P.).—Ever since representatives of the two Govern menta concluded in September the trade ugaty between Germany and the Union of South Africa, a cam- paign has been conducted here to prevent the treaty being ratified by Parliament, and, as the opening of the session draws nearer, the attack is being intensified. At first, op position came from the men who oppose the, Government simply he cause they are the Government Then business, as represented by the Chamber of Commerce, joined in and their voices were swelled by the voices of Imperialista.
To-day the opposition Press is firing broadsides into the treaty and demanding that Parliament shall hold it up, obviously in the hope that the next session of the Hertzog Parliament may be its last, as the election will closely follow it. If the South African Party is returned there is little doubt that the treaty will be scrapped.
The fear that inter-imperial trade will be injured is the basis of the main argument against the treaty.
"The treaty says to us and to the whole world," declared the Chairman of the Capetown Cham ber of Commerce "that" South. Africa as a country is not in favour of inter-imperial trade such as we have known it."
Denouncing the Treaty. One of the Government's strong est opponents in its general fiscal policy, on the same occasion vigor- ously denounced the treaty and ended declaring "Germany after all is said and done, is one of our biggest rivals. What does she de to assist us? She takes nothing from us compared with what Great
Britain takes."
CORPORATION.
MAY "REVOLUTIONISE
WORLD'S MARKET.
London (U.P.).-A corporation with only one hundred pounds sterling capital is likely to revolu tionize the world's cotten, market, according to London cottof experts. The little corporation, under the
A Pugnacious Barrister.
"The answer as it seems to us," adds the newspaper, "is to bet found in by Article (9) which places the German Reich on the same footing is Great Britain with regard to any futute preferences that may be granted to Great Britain by the Union. For Ger- many we have not the least doubt has been shrewd enough to see that if once the principle could be em- direction of Mr. C. J. Hedley- bodied in a treaty with a Dominion Thornton, has refused to accept of the British Empire it would spell government assistance and has ex- the end of the system of Imperial Preferences for at any rate many pressly stated that it did not in- tears to come. That from the Ger- tend to increase the share capital. ' man point of view would be a great
Yet the company claims control achievement.. Apparently Geralany
of artificial cotton has found in Mr. Beyers (Minister of the secret af Mines who negotiated the treaty) which many believe will soon be either a dupe as a willing accom- offering real cotton a most serious plice."
"Any one who knows the Minister competition, if it does not entirely of Mines, would hardly apply either eclipse it. The explanation of this description to him. He is a bar refusal to accept either assistance rister of the pugnacious type and views He of all the members of form of further investments is ex- has been credited with republican from the government or aid in the the Hertzog Government is per-plained by a close friend of Mr.. haps the most Ekely to drive a
Hedley-Thornton on the grounds hard bargain for his country.
that the company has almost un- limited offers of backing from It has been pointed out from the banks and financial housea.
his Government side that apart from Mr. Hedley-Thornton and gold and diamònda. the percentage associates are now embarking on of South African products sent to the commercial production of Britain is not a tremendously high substitute for cotton which they one but for electioneering purposes have been working on for nine it suits the opposition to declare years. The material comes from a that under the treaty "Southweed, first found in British Guiana, Africa is depriving herself daliber with which the group has been ex ately of her powers to negotiate perimenting intensively. preferential Brangements with of chemical processes are applied Great. Britain or the Domnions to the weed and later to the fibre and further that if Parliament from the stalk which transforms the this fibre into a substitäte ready were to ratify the treaty effect would be that Germany and for the mills. 1. Beers let them would Result of Long Experiment. have laid down for the future the basis of any trade relations which shat exist between South Africa and the rest of the British Empire. There is much similar talk about the "banging of the door" against Britain, but it is unlikely that the Government will be deflected from its course and, having the majority to do so, will push it through the House of Assembly.
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This fact is demonstrated by plac ing a ball of real cotton and a ball of artificial cotton in a dye tank. The real cotton floats for a time." showing the slowness with which it absorbs the liquid, but the "artificial sirks almost at once.
Mr.
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Hedley Thornton that many people have asked him.
It is the first treaty that South Africa has attempted since her new status of equality with Britain and the sister Staten of the British Commonwealth of Nations was a knowledged to the world, and it is likely that the courte chosen will be changed. Prominence is given here to messages from Melbourne This campaign of opposition has stating that the. Federal Govern- aprend to Rhodesia which, a[ ment regarded the treaty with the why it will not be possible for course, has a Customs arrangement utmost seriousness" but against others to steal one or two roots with the Union through whose ports this it is pointed out that Mr. same dark night and commence her goods must enter Rhodesia Amery has declared in the Com-growing the substitute themacives, to-day is talking about denouncing mons that preference would not His answer is that he is more than the Customs arrangement in order in any way he effected by the treaty willing to preacht anyone with a to impress upon the Union Govern-As far as articles enumerated in the sample of the roots free. He de ment that her first wish is to South African tariff as enjoying clares that the recipient will still "trade imperially." The strongest preference were concerned.' The have the equivalent of the mine Prens opposition in the Union has framers of the treaty are quite years experimentation which he Come from the Cape Times
content to take Mr. Amery's views. himself has just completed. The which, at the time of writing, reached the stage of describing the treaty as Dietation from Ger- many"
Mother of six chifren, all under "How did this treaty originate?" eight years of age, Elizabeth Berry Were the man (39), wife of a Taunton ferry asks the Cape Times. negotiations opened from the Ger driver, was overcome with faintness, man side or from the side of the fell on to the kitchen fire, and was. Union And if there is some rea- | fatally burned, Her two-months- sop to believe Germany either old baby. was in her arms at the originated or entered very gordially time and was found in the fender into the negotiations what was it covered in soot and cinders, but that Germany was expecting to uninjured.
work of discovering how to treat the weed to obtain the present high-producer and then the secrets of treating the fibre to turn it into bave to be done over again. a cotton-like substance would all
A further point that is interest ing growers is the fact that the new substitute is gathered in by a reaping process which is both faster and cheaper than the picking of
cotton.
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