PRECAUTIONS BEING TAKEN.
GOVERNMENT LOTH TO USE BURGHERS.
HALF OF NATAL BAILWAVMEN OUT.
frc.vi Association—Electric Telec.aph—CopyriKtil. (Received Wednesday, at 9.55 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG, Tuesday. It is expected that the strike crisis will be precipitated to-morrow. Tho Government has formed a mobile column of two hundred war veterans for emergency service at any point. None of the burgher force has been stationed here, and the defcuco of the town has been mainly handed to English volunteers. General Smuts, addressing the Committee of Public Safety, said ho was loth to use the burghers in Johannesburg, fearing they would not tolerate what the Imperial troops tolerated without firing last July. As typical of the strong precautions which are being taken members of the Cabinet in Pretoria are being accompanied everywhere by armed escorts. Work at tho docks in Capetown is proceeding as usual. Some strikers at Salt River have resumed. Half of the Natal railwayman are out, mostly from the workshops. The train service coutinues normal. ,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11878, 14 January 1914, Page 5
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162PRECAUTIONS BEING TAKEN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11878, 14 January 1914, Page 5
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