THE JOHANNESBURG PLOT.
REPORT FROM LORD ROBERTS. RAILWAY EMPLOYEES DEPORTED. A DEMAND FOR COMPENSATION. (Received September 22, 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, 21st September. Lord Roberts reports that the police discovered that the foreigners at Johannesburg intended on 14tii July, to murder the unarmed officers and police on tbo Johannesburg racecourse, overpower the garrison, and seize the Government offices. The plotters were acting in concert with a commando at Swartzkop. On the night of the 13th five hundred of the plotters were arrested. The evidence against them was 1 submitted to the foreign Consuls, who concurred in the arrests. Seventy-five persons were released on the responsibility of the foreign Consuls, and the rest were deported. All the Nationalists at Johannesburg approved the steps taken. Few of the foreigners were deported, adds Lord Roberts, except some employees of the Netherlands 1 llailway Company. They refused to work the railway under British control, and were proved to have be^n. actively engaged in the war. The Government of Holland hag demanded compensation for the arrest and deportation of railway employees.
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Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 72, 22 September 1900, Page 5
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175THE JOHANNESBURG PLOT. Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 72, 22 September 1900, Page 5
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