AFRICAN STRIKE OVER.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 351, 20 March 1922, Page 6

AFRICAN STRIKE OVER.

Tha following appeared la our | Second Ec»si tfl timmyi—

HI all OK AI'I'LIGANTS. By Electric Teh-graph.- Copyright. Received March 18, 2 p.m. CAPKTOWN. March 17. Tnuips found bombs and detonators ski! I f,||iy concealed as traps on staircases n ihe' buildings caplurecl al h'ordshurg oi : Wednesday.' A man captured yesterday i: ' bdieved to be responsible for the I oca inaiiufaelu.rc of bombs used against ill, i heleagureii poi.ee. A factory was d.s j covered in a house al Newlands.

: In paying a t'iibule to the rapidity ol ; ,|,,, mobilisation ot the Boers, observers ; point (.in dial within a. few hours ol the ; Govoriiiiienf.s call L0..000 burghers from the i imntrvside arrivi d on the Rand. I h transpires ihal the Red- placed 70 cap.,;ied police in the top storey ol tin; mar- . ..,,, lanhii,,,,;. in Kordsburg so lhaJ if it was ; limbed ihe nolice would be exposed to i danger. The news leaked oul in nine to \ avoid bombing. '('ho eiejine drivers and mine workers railed off ilif strike, thus obviating llii necessity of » balioi. This practically end: i.l u , strike as ihe mine workois h ihe prin eijKil union ali'eeied. The mine." have beei ~.,,hed by applicants for eiiiployment, and ; .hey are' getting more than they can em pk-v. I Among those chaired with (reason an Nicluilasi a member of the Town Council, and another member, the chairman ol (In public health commiltee, has also been

ai resion. I uuimi.-wu, », •■ r -•-- position of presiffon.l of the Industrial (.'(.deration, has also been arrested,- A. ami j X.Z. cable. Receiv-d Miivch 18. 2.25 p.m. CAI'KTOW'N, March 17. 1,, thanking Ihe burgher forces^ on parade, Colonel li. Mem/.. Minister of Defence, said the people had the tight to stand in in "die defence of (heir rights, bill nol Io shoot policemen and walk about with club-, killing everybody who did nol agree with (hem? They stood for a while South Africa; their children were going to inheril a white South Africa, li'il nol composed of tlir class of people who w.re responsible for the recent disturbances. General Brink said (hat persons from other cotmlries had come and sown poison iinionir the people of South Africa, but he I rusted the lesson ihev had new learned would,, rh vei be forgotten. Whs! had been done would .-.how thai such a slide of affairs would novo/ ai.-.tin be loleraled.- -A. and Ml cable.