MARTIAL LAW .

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 6, 7 July 1913, Page 7

MARTIAL LAW .

ENROLMENT OF SPECIAL CONSTABLES. NUMBERS OF PERSONS SHOT DOWN. SIXTY KILLED OR WOUNDED. (Received July 7, 11 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG, 6th July. The settlement came none too soon, for although the night of horror was succeeded by a strangely quiet morning, there were sinister forebodings of renewed trouble which led to a proclamation at noon of the strictest martial law in the Witwatersrand area. Many firms have enrolled special constables. Sir Percy Fitzpatrick and other members of the old Imperial Light Horse are enrolling, with hundreds of others, in a special citizen police. Fifty Rhodesiaus at Salisbury have offered to enlist and assist the authorities on the Rand. The special constables, when sworn in, are to be armed with rifles and fifty cartridges each. A great mob assembled early in the afternoon outside the Rand dub. Refusing to disperse, they were subjected to a Dragoon charge Another crowd quickly formed, and, being reinforced, Btoned the club. The troops fired, and numbers fell. The remainder fled. The casualties exceed one hundred. The troops were two hours raking the principal streets with fire. All the ambulances were kept busy. Sixty persons were killed or wounded within a comparatively small period, and within a small area.