SOUTH AFRICA
GENERAL SMUTS’ BIRTHDAY. LONDON, May 23. The population of Witwatersrand is giving the South African Prime Minister (General Smuts) a cheque for £lOO,OOO on Sunday, the eve of his seventy-second birthday. General Smuts will give the cheque to the Governor-General’s War Fund. General Smuts arrived in Pretoria yesterday by air from Cairo. RAND EXPLOSIONS. CAPE TOWN, May 23. Three more explosions have occurred in the Johannesburg area. A time-bomb seriously damaged a telephone and telegraph cable between Johannesburg and Pretoria. A bomb also damaged water-pipes on the Klip river, but an attempt to blow up a railway line near Roodeport was unsuccessful.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 May 1942, Page 5
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