RAND REVOLT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18512, 24 March 1922, Page 5

RAND REVOLT

DISTRESS AND UNEMPLOYMENT. AN IMPROVEMENT ANTICIPATED. REOPENING OF THE MINES. Pieas Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. CAPETOWN, March 22. Although there is much unemployment and distress on the Rand, there is reason to believe that the mining industry will be able to absorb a good proportion in the course of time, now that the industry has got down to a proper economic basis. Some of the mines which were closed owing to excessive working costs may be able to reopen;—A. and N.Z. Cable. THE RED LEADERS. NO HEART FOR FIGHTING. YOUNGSTERS SHOW GAMENESS. CAPETOWN, March 22. A local trade unionist who was kept at Fordsburg by the Reds gives the Johannesburg Star interesting details. Ho states that when it came to the pinch, the youngsters were the only ones who were ready to fight. The Red leaders told their followers that if they held out to the bitter end the terms of surrender would be given, also that huge commandos of Boers were coming to their assistance. When the attack commenced, some of the leaders exhorted their dupes to die for a better world, and then disappeared at the sound of the first gun.—A. and N.Z. Cable.