16 FEBRUARY 1924, Page 10

It is not often that the Union House of Assembly

in South Afiica listens to a commendation of General Smuts from General Hertzog, and yet this is what happened Last week when the Nationalist leader informed General Smuts that his party were with him in what he had done in Europe with regard to the Asiatic question. The occasion was a moderate speech, in which General Hertzog insisted on the necessity of maintaining walls between the European and non-European spheres of labour in South Africa.