News of the Week
General Hertzog and the Imperial Conference •
THE pleasant shadows of the next Iniperial Conference lie upon us. General Hertzog, the Prime Minister: of South Africa, and Mr. Havenga his Minister of Finance, have already arrived for a League meeting at Geneva and in readiness for the Conference. Mr. Scullin is on his way to England, and is the object of peculiar sympathy as at the moment when he faces the economic crisis of his country he is in bad health and had to be carried on board ship. It must have been a consolation to him that before he left Australia he saw powerful Committees in being for lessening the financial strain in accordance with the recommendations of Sir Otto Niemeyer. A very interest; ing message from the Cape Town correspondent of the Times warns us that General HertzOg is bound to raise again at the Imperial Conference the question of Dominion " freedom."
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