1000 CAPTURED AT BENONI.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18431, 15 March 1922, Page 5

1000 CAPTURED AT BENONI.

EASING UP IN JOHANNESBURG. TRENCHES IN FORDSBURG STREETS. CAPETOWN, March 13. Motor transport in Johannesburg is again running freely, but normal activities are almost at a standstill. The police are drafting the male population of some of the disaffected areas into convenient locations and combing out those wanted. At Fordsburg revolutionary forces dug themselves in in the streets, working hard, and entrenching street corners. They displayed notices declaring martial law. A few police are still held prisoners in the schoolroom. Roads leading from the town have been effectively barricaded. A thousand prisoners were taken in the capture of Benoni. The arrests include a number of strike leaders. Beleaguered police were released at Brixton. They were in an exhausted condition, and were kept without food for three days. Boy Scouts attempting to relieve them were sniped at. The Government forces sustained only twenty-three casualties in the capture of Benoni.