POLICE AND NATIVES
CLASH IN SOUTH AFRICA. suvbral killed and wounded. (United Press Association.) (Bj - Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) CAPETOWN, May 5. (Received May 6, at 1 a.m.) Five were killed, sixteen. seriously injured, and many slightly in a conflict with the police in the Worcester district. Bo.' many weeks natives and the coloured population threatened to hold a demonstration under the auspices of the Industrial Workers* Union, which is allied to the _ Internationale. The leaders of tho natives, in view of. police precautions, withheld action until yesterday. The crisis came when the chief detective of Capetown and four policemen motored past a crowd, which stoned tho car. Nineteen police with fixed bayonets were then summoned. Two of these advanced on the crowd with tho object of arresting a native for assault, and both were stabbed. Captain Carter, .in making a final effort was felled and his face whs cut open with’ ah axe. The police fired. Constable Walters 'was seriously ■tabbed, and another constable’s life was saved by his pocket book.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21018, 6 May 1930, Page 10
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