TAMPERING WITH RAILWAY LINE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLVIII, Issue 16, 20 January 1914, Page 8

TAMPERING WITH RAILWAY LINE.

THE BURGHiaiS COMPLIMENTED

v a . CAPETOWN, Jan. 19. _^A guaa^ patrollfng ' the Transvaal-.boa-dfir a-rrested- a maii for tain--permg witlttlio line; arid- fired at three others who escaped:" " • ' ■ ; 4 Two hundred railwaymen signed an wfc Germiston 'and'a.' large number at Braadnfontein resumed to-day. : :BjreiythiiigI'-is quiet at Benbni: ' V •;; JJhe .Feideration df Building TrMes "at Pretoria refused to rettirn to work this morning, and the' pblice in the afternoon arrested the acting-secre-tary. ■ ,■;. ■ ■;..■. ■-.. .. ■■-:. . 6 =•■ - :j Buyers, comriiandantf o-f th« <fetence; forco.'1 • addressing th 4? bur-, gh-ers,, .ex-plaintjd that' they had -not teen /called'olii^ during M^ Jiily strike; becayste the force was'then pnly, four j da-ys- old and hceded'time for organisation': . H<* fcfelteved that mobilisation could .not have been can-ted out b.et*ef in any part of tho world, vyathm three days the men had joined irom the farthest point. They wished to 'show that they could manage i&eir own affaii-s' without the help of xne Imperial tmops. I