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Pretoria, Oct. 18.
Making his first public speech since he became Prime Minister, General Jan Smuts announced today that a nationwide survey of the Union of South Africa's mineral resources was to be made, because:
1. South African industry might have to provide for internal needs should overseas supplies be curtailed. 2. Other Allied countries might look io. the Union to supply them witH essential commodities.
On the military front, General Smuts said, South Africa had to make "up for lost time and neglected duty, and to organise the country's military forces and prepare for future emergencies.
"The dislocation of shipping and trade due to submarine and aerial attack, he added, was not es great as had been anticipated.
"Things in fact," the Prime Minister asserted, "are working out very much better than we thought before the war broke out. Actually, the only people who are in very serious danger are neutrals,"
Gen, Smuts added that they could see for themselves what the Union's position would be as "isolationists land neutralists," without the protection of the British Navy, which en-fabled South African produce and products to find a place on the markets of the world—Reuter.
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