SOUTH AFRICA.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 46, 31 March 1914, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICA.

MEASURE ABANDONED.

PEACE PRESERVATION BILL.

By Cable -~Press ' Association.—Copyright,

(Received. March 31, 9 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, March 30.

The Government has withdrawn the Peace. Preservation Bill, substituting an amendment to the law, dealing with riotous assemblies.

[The. Bill .provided foT the maintenance of public safety in times of actual or apprehended danger; empowered the police to arrest, without warrant, persdns suspected of treason or inciting thereto; protected workmen from intimidation, prohibited picketing, penalised a breach of contract involving danger to the*public by persons in public utility services; empowered the Government;'to prohibit and dispose riotous g&th&rings and remove persons convicted of 1 sedition or incitement thereto, unless born in South Africa.]