SOUTH AFRICA.
ALL QUIET EVERYWHERE. THE BURGHERS COMPLIMENTED [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 12.55 p.m.) Capetown, January 19. A guard patrolling the TransvaalNatal border arrested a man for tampering with the line. They fired, at three others, who escaped. Two hundred railwayman have signed on at Gonniston, and a large number at Braamfontein resume to-day. Everything is quiet at Benoni. The Federation of Building Trades at Pretoria refused to return to work this morning. The policy in the afternoon arrested the acting secretary.
General Beyers, commandant of the defence force, addressing the burghers, explained that they were not called out for the July strike, because it was only four days’ old, andtlioy needed time for organisation. He believed that mobilisation could not be carried out better in any part of the world. Within three days, men joined from the farthest point. He wished to show that they could manage their own affairs without the help of Imperial troops.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 17, 20 January 1914, Page 6
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