RIOTOUS MEETING.
GENERAL SMUTS ASSAILED.
PARTY ROUGHLY HANDLED.
(Received October 4. 2,. ajn.)
Johannesburg, October 3. It is officially reported that -when General Smuts, Minister for Defences was addressing a meeting at Newlands, a crowd of 2000 violently broke up the meeting, and General Smuts 8 followers were stoned. > The police escorted the general to his carriage. The mob roughly handled some members of his party and attempted to drag General Smuts out, amidst further volleys of stones.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16039, 4 October 1915, Page 6
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78RIOTOUS MEETING. New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16039, 4 October 1915, Page 6
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