Gen, Smuts' Warning Disregarded Capetown, Feb. 4.
The Assembly to-day by 64 votes to 47 passed the third reading of the Colour Bar Bill after General Smuth had uttered a final, impressive warning against it, in the course of which he declared that AIL shops and business houses in the Rue Saint Honoré closed for an hour to-day as a protest against the new taxation and fiscal equalities. Notices were posted on the building quoting figures showing, the disproportionate amount paid by Lusinessmen compared to farmers lust. year.
The shopkeepers expressed their willingness voluntarily to contribute to the National Sinking Fund provided all Frenchmen wore treated fairly—Reuter, the Bill would mean the opening of and the beginning the history of the country:
which they might all bitterly regret in future years—
Reuter.
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