AFRICAN NATIVE TROUBLE

Taranaki Daily News, 18 January 1930, Page 9

AFRICAN NATIVE TROUBLE

CHARGE OF SEDITION LAID RESULT OF CARNAVON RIOT ANXIETY ALL OVER UNION By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Capetown, Jan. 16. A native, Professor Thaele, who was concerned in the native riot at Carnavon on Monday, has been arrested on a charge of sedition. Bail was granted. The strike of railway natives at East London to-day met with little response, but the native stevedores, who are not affected, demanded better wages and refusd to work. • The position throughout the country is causing anxiety. An earlier cable stated: .Significance is attached to a native disturbance at Carnavon, a small town in the Cape Province, resenting a municipal restriction on squatting on -commons. The natives congregated and attacked the police, injuring an officer, whereupon nymed fanners came to the town. The Minister of Justice stressed that the Government was satisfied of the possibility of real danger. The Government possessed documents showing that native organisations were furthering Bolshevik propaganda. He suggests that Parliament, after its opening on Friday, should suspend business to discuss native unrest. He is convinced of the justice of many of their claims.