EVERYTHING QUIET.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 17, 20 January 1914, Page 5

EVERYTHING QUIET.

v, MEN GOING BACK* \ COST OF SUPPRESSION. LESSON IN MOBILISATION. MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. STEBK MEASURES PREDICTED. (By Cable. -Press Association.—Copyright.) CAPETOWN, January 19. On Sunday night, Williams, a Labour member of the Rand Municipality, was arrested. The town of Johannesburg and the Reefs are now quiet. The police are unarmed, but armed sentries remain at the railway stations, on the bridges, and other vital points. Meetings of the tailors, painters, and other unions are being allowed in the Trades Hall on a guarantee to the martial law authorities. On Sunday night a leaflet. entitled, "The Strike Herald" was circulated freely in Pretoria. Its contents were of such a nature that the police surrounded the printing offices, arrested and.sent to prison five men, and took possession of the second number of the issue which was almost ready for printing. The railway staff at Pretoria has decided to resume work. A number of the engine-drivers and fin men immediately signed on to restart .with": the guards on Monday morning." "The; employees in the workshops have not yet decided, but it is exrcctedithat_they. will soon follow the example of the running staff. An attempt was made on Satmday night to destroy the engine bouse at Vogelstruis Estate mine on the Rand. A cage containing a skipman was being lowered, when a package was thrown through the window of the engine house. The smell of a burning fuse attracted the driver's attention, and he stopped the engine, saving the skipman's life. ' He. rushed with" the package to the door, and had barely time to throw it clear before an explosion odeumed. The perpetrator made good his escape.