NOT THREATENED BY THE PREMIER.
THE HAND STRIKE LEADERS. [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT.] (Received Sept. 15, 11.30 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 15. The “Telegraph’s” Johannesburg correspondent says that until the Labor leaders’ revelations were made it was generally believed that General Botha (Premier) secured a. stoppage of hostilities by threatening that the Labor leaders would be tried summarily and instantly shot if they continued openly hostile.
[A. sensation was caused' by Mr Poutsma stating that after the rioting on July sth, peace wos concluded at the point of the revolver. General Smuts (Minister for Finance emphatically denied Mr Poutsma’s statement Mr Bain, secretary of the Federation of Trade Unionists, now states that when the settlement was signed, Ministers and delegates went on to the balcony of the Carlton Hotel. The soldiers had rifles levelled, and if a shot had been fired General Botha (the Premier), General Smuts, and Colonel Trutter, Chief of Police would not have lived a minute. Mr Matthews, Secretary of the Miners’ Association, states that two members of the Labor party covered General Botha and General Smuts with revolvers, intending to kill them if the troops below fired a single shot.]
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3438, 16 September 1913, Page 5
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