SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8680, 13 March 1914, Page 6

SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE

RELIEF OF DISTRESS'. TWO THOUSAND MINERS UNEMPLOYED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyrlsii* - -CAPETOWN, March 11. The Band municipalities are organising relief of the distress caused by the strike aftermath. Two thousand .miners are unemployed and two thousand have emigrated. DESTRUCTION OF SECRET DOCUMENTS. LONDON, March 11. Colonel Seely (Secretary of State for War),dn reply to Mr Henderson, ALP., Gaid-hp. ha<4. not issued any instructions Wt&e.&pufh African Government to destroy secret documents. PROSECUTIONS DROPPED. (Received March 12, 10.30 p.m.) PRETORIA, March 12. The Government has dropped the prosecution of Mr Connerty, the president of the Railwaymen’s Society and a, number-of. other, leaders in connection with speeches , delivered about January 6th. , INDEMNITY BILL. APPEAL TO THE GOVERNMENT. (Received March 12, 10.55 p.m.) CAPETOWN, March 12. ... General Smuts, Minister for Defence, in the Senate, in moving the second* reading of the Indemnity Bill, fiaid that there--was legal machinery to provide permits to enable the deported men to return temporarily, hut South Africa was too small to contain both the Government and these nighty* potentates » 'file Hon. W. P. Schreiner appealed to the Government to admit that the deportations were an error and to substitiilo a trial. He declared that the recent disturbances were the fault of the Government and Parliament. The deportations would encourage Syndicalism. He predicted that the exodus would cause the death of white skilled labour. ;