INDIAN ITROUBLE IN SOUTH AFRICA.
A SERIOUS STRIKE
DURBAN PARALYSED
BY CABLE—PBESS ASSOCIATION—COPYB.GHT.
(Received Nov. 18, 10 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, Nov. 17. . The situation in the plantations near Durban is daily becoming' more alarming. Strikers • besieged the" Edgcombe estates to induce the workers to strike. European women and children took refuge in factories, and the police were summoned and Indians assailed them with sticks and stones. Thirty Indians and one trooper were injured.' The Indians on other plantations set fire to cane, causing serious damage. The situation in Durban has become more serious, as the strike is rapidly becoming general. The harbor, corporation and railway employees have now struck, as well as drivers, cooks, waiters, and messengers, and the work of scavenging has had to be suspended.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 18 November 1913, Page 5
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127INDIAN ITROUBLE IN SOUTH AFRICA. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXV, Issue LXV, 18 November 1913, Page 5
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