POLICE SEARCH FOR NARCOTICS
TWO INJURED IN RJOTINO AT CAPE TOWN CAPE TOWN, November 7. A coloured crowd of several hundreds besieged four police searching a cottage at Mossel Bay for a prohibited narcotic herb. They stoned the cottage and tried to tear off the iron roof and pull down the chimney. ... , When they burst in the doors and poured in Iho police shot (heir way free, wounding two. Reinforcements were unable to quell the riot until they fired shots in the air. Two police were seriously injured. Stu arrests were nvad«.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22245, 9 November 1937, Page 11
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