FEROCIOUS NATIVES
SEVERAL POLICE STABBED,
RETALIATION WITH FIREARMS.
SOUTH TAFRIOAN AFFRAY. (Received 9 a.m.) CAPETOWN, May 5. Five natives were killed, 16 seriously wounded and many others slightly injured in. a conflict with the police in the -Worcester district of the Cape." For many weeks the coloured population had threatened to' hold a demonstration under the auspices of the Industrial Workers’ Union, which is allied to the Internationale. The leaders of the natives, in view of, the police precautions, withheld action until yesterday. The crisis came when the Chief Detective of Capetown and four police motored past a crowd, which stoned the ear. Nineteen police with fixed bayonets were then' summoned. Two of these advanced on the crowd with the object of arresting a native for assault. Both police were stabbed. Captain Carter, in making a final effort, was felled and his face was cut open with an axe, whereupon the police fired. Constable Walters "was seriously stabbed, and - another constable’s life was saved by a pocket-book.
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Northern Advocate, 6 May 1930, Page 5
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