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Show SITS PARTY RUNNING AHEAD IN Si VOTING Secession Movement Seems to Have Lost Out in I uesday's Election j CAPETOWN. South Africa, Feb. 9. : Enormous majorities were jflven tho South Afrlcari party In Durban and Capetown estcrrday. while the Labor party fiuff'.'rril n severe ro-yerfle ro-yerfle In the Rand district. In Capetown Cape-town tli- South African party gained two s-.:it.s: In Durban threp. in the Hand 8. and hi East London 1. The vic tory of the party headed by Prime Minister Smuts Is attributed to the fad that wovklnprmer. voted against the secession issue raised by General Hertzog. -.'.It I.I.I CTED 1'liETORlA, I'nion of South Africa, Feb General Smuts, prime minister minis-ter of the Unlbll of South Afrlen. was elected to the house of assembly from the district of Pretoria, West, in the . lections held throughout the union yesterday. Returns received up 'until an early hour today indicated the South Afil-can Afil-can party, under the leadership of General Smuts, had won a victory. There was some uncertainty as to the vote In the rural districts, but the South African party seemed assured of a wood working majority In the assembly. Tuesday's elections were marked by the contest between the British and Dutch elements led by Premier Jan Christian Smuts for preservation of the i'nion of South Africa, and Gen- ral llertzojf. supported by many Koei war veterans, favoring secession from Great Britain. The Laborite party had supported the Hertsog party in parliament and a strike called Just before be-fore election was declared to have been sponsored to consolidate the labor la-bor ranks, i oo |