AFFAIRS ON THE RAND

Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 57, 9 March 1922, Page 7

AFFAIRS ON THE RAND

ALL-NIGHT FIGHTING AT

VOEDEDORP

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CAPETOWN, Bth March.

Fighting occurred all night_long at Voededorp, the strikers attacking natives in sheer wantonness. Two natives sVnd an Indian woman were killed, and throe natives were taken to hospital. A native 1 doctor was wounded. A grave feature is the not unnatural disposition of the natives to retaliate.

The police casualties in yesterday's affray with commandos are an officer and two men wounded.

(AI'ITRALIAN - NEW ZEALAND CAM. AIIOCIATIOK.) CAPETOWN, 7th March. The Prime Minister (General Smuts), in a statement in the House of Assembly, said evidently the tempers of .both parties to "the Rand strike were growing worse: He declared that the Chamber of Mines' reply to the federation was couched in a deplorable tone, and was followed by a worse move on the other side in declaring a general strike. A 'bright spot in the situation was. the exemplary conduct of the police. He strongly deprecated the disparaging references made regarding them. So far it had been unnecessary to take special precautions to maintain order, but they anight" become necessary if ,the situation grew worse. His services weTe always at the disposal of the disputants in an endeavour to effect a settlement.