BLOEMFONTEIN RIOT
; ... —— -«C»- ’’ • SUBDUED BY POLICE. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) CAPETOWN, April 20. All was quiet in Bloemfontein in-the evening. The city was under police and civilian patrol. Fifty native ringleaders were arrested. To-day’s casualties among natives, so far as they are at present known,/ include four killed, three seriously injured and 18' slightly injured. Two Europeans were seriously hurt. The later details show that a special force of police, armed only with pick handles, were sent in the location to disperse the natives. A reserve fore*' was stationed outside, armed with rifles and fixed bayonets, but the strictest orders were issued that no rifle was to be fired without distinct orders. The police met with a stout resistance. .Many were injured by flying stones. The reserve was then brought in. In the end, the reserve was forced to fire. The previous esfimatq of,, the native 'casualties is confirmed.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 April 1925, Page 5
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