THE BAND REBELLION
REMARKABLE EVIDENCE AT INQUIRY. REVOLUTIONARIES AND NATIONALISTS. (By Telegraph—Prow Asan.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) CAPETOWN, May 8. Remarkable evidence was given before the Martial Law Commission at Johannesburg regarding the relations between the revolutionary leaders and the Nationalists. An affidavit by a Dutch miner stated that he accompanied a Red leader named Erasmus, on a motor drive in the Free State just previous to the outbreak where he had interviews with prominent Nationalists, they subsequently meeting at Fordsburg on the day of the outbreak. announced that he had been through the Free State and they had the whole country behind them. Major Trigger produced affidavits showing plans of the movement timed for January 18, but they proved abortive. Early in March Major Trigger obtained possession of part of the Council of Action’s secret code, which wm used in telephoning the Council's headquarters. Fisher, the Red leader, responded to Major Trigger who, using the code, asked for certain vegetables. Fisher replied that he had sent for cabbages and potatoes, meaning dynamite and detonators.
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Southland Times, Issue 19511, 10 May 1922, Page 5
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176THE BAND REBELLION Southland Times, Issue 19511, 10 May 1922, Page 5
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