MORE MEN OFFERING THAN REQUIRED.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13912, 20 January 1914, Page 5

MORE MEN OFFERING THAN REQUIRED.

JOHANNESBURG QUIET

ATTEMPTED OUTRAGE AT A MINE

Johannesburg, Jan. 18

Mr. Hoy states that more men are now offering, than are required. The resumption of the normal service early this week will provide for a large number, but the administration will presently be unable to find places. Williams, a Labour member of the Rand Municipality, has been arrested

The town and the Reefs are now quiet. The police are unarmed, but armed sentries remain at the railway stations, bridges, and other vital points. Meetings of tailors, painters, and other labour unions are allowed at the Trades Hall on a guarantee to the martial law authorities.

An attempt was made on Saturday night to destroy the engine house at Vogelstruis estate. The mine cage, containing a skipman, was being lowered when a package was thrown through a window of the engine house. The smell of burning fuse attracted the driver';.-! attention. He stopped the engine, saving the skiprnan's life, rushed to the door, and barely reached it before the explosion occurred. The perpetrator escaped, leaving no trace.