RAILWAY LINES CUT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 342, 9 March 1922, Page 5

RAILWAY LINES CUT.

PITT,MED BATTLE TAKES PI-AGE. Rceeibed March 9, 12.25 p.m. CAPETOWN, March 8. All attempts to call out (he. railwayman hitherto have failed. The so-called general strike tip to the present has not eventuated, ail hough owing to the inlensitied intimidation campaign two mines have been compelled to temporarily dost'. The commandoes are now largely composed of hands of alleged hooligans. The railway line bet ween Germi.slon and Pretoria has been etd, and a number of telephone lines have also been cut The signal station at Jeppes, the centre of Johannesburg, was held tip at midnight. .Masked men blew up the railway line, above the subway, and till trains were blocked for hours, Attacks on tlie natives at Voededorp were irsumed this morning. They were chased in all direel ions at the point of the revolver. Women and children took refuge in the homes of Europeans. A pitched battle occurred at Ferreiras lie!ween hands of strikers and natives. The former attacked in a cold blooded manner, but the police eventually restored order. An aeieplatie squadron is circling over (lie town, Tito Inert report slates that six natives were killed and 19 wounded in the various attacks. The president of the Mens Federation lias issued a notice stating that attacks on nalites miist cease, and strikers observing anyone attacking natives must hand the oll'enders over to the authorities.—A. and N.Z. cable.

ATTACKS MADE ON NATIVES. CAPETOWN. March 8. All niglii long strikers at Voldedorp attacked natives from sheer wtiniot.ncss. Two natives and an Indian woman were killed and three natives taken to hospital. A native doctor was wounded. The billin' is grave as there is a not unnatural disposition on the part ot the natives to retaliate. The police casualties in yesterday’s affray will; the •■ummandoes are an ollicer and two men wounded. The Premier, in a statement in the Assembly. said that evidently the temper-, ot both parties to the Rand strike were growing worse, lb> declared dial the Chamber oi' Alines’ reply to the Federation was a,imbed in a deplorable lone and was billowed Io a worse move on the part, of die ither *ide in declaring a general -trike. Due bright spot .in the situation was the exemplary conduct of die police, and he. ulonely deprecated disparaging reterenee.made regarding them. .So lar it had been iinieeess-nv Io take special precautions to maintain ureter, but it might, become nece.---aty ii llu* stlnation' grew'worse. His services weto always at the dLposal of die li;nnt::i-!s in any endeavour to cited, a -cltlcment.- A. and N.Z. cable.