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Big African
Plan Assured
CAPE TOWN. April 10.
Southern Rliodesias ac
ceptance of a Central Afri
can Federation— a plan to
weld three vast British ter
ritories into one — was as
sured today when the final
count of votes in yesterday's
referendum was made.
Northern Rhodesia, Nyasa
Iand and other territories
concerned are now expected
to approve the plan.
The Federation will amal
gamate 500,000 square miles
oi Southern and Northern
Rhodesia and Nyasaland into
a vast new state.
The decision was assurred
when 23 of the constituencies
declared then1 results.
About 82 p.c. of the 47,000
entitled to vote went to the
Southern Rhodesian polls,
most of them Europeans. —
AAP.
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