TRANSVAAL RIOT
NATIVES & WHITE CLASH.
LONDON, November 6
‘‘Several hundred police were called out to quell a riot in a Johannesburg suburb when 2000 native:! began stoning all traffic after a tram had knocked down a native," says Reuter’s Johannesburg correspondent. The police were compelled to fire on the natives, 11 of whom were injured. Europeans stoned the offices of the native newspaper, ‘Bantu World,’ which was later destroyed by fire.” FIRE IN GOLD MINE. . CAPE TOWN, November 5. Three senior mine officials were killed and 100 native mine workers were sent to hospital in Johannesburg, as a result of gas fumes caused by a fire in the Van Dyk gold mines at Benoni. The fire is now under control.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 November 1944, Page 2
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