DISORDER IN SOUTH AFRICA.
JOHANNESBURG, October 3. It is officially reported that when General Smuts was addressing a meeting at Newlands a crowd of 2003 people violently broke it up. General Smuts’s followers were stoned, and the police escorted him to his carriage. The mob roughly handled some of the members of his party, and attempted to drag General Smuts out amidst further volleys of stones.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 30
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66DISORDER IN SOUTH AFRICA. Otago Witness, Issue 3212, 6 October 1915, Page 30
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