SITUATION GRAVE.
DYNAMITARDS TO BE SHOT AT SIGHT. JOHANNESBURG, Tuesday. Tho Rand is quiet. Both sides are preparing for the final struggle, a truce prevailing, pending the declaration of the strike ballot.
Business is at a standstill while the streets are almost deserted.
Three hundred armed workers aro sleeping on the premises to guard the Trades Hall against a police raid, while an armed bodyguard escorted the labour leaders everywhere.
General Do Wet commands a large lorce of burghers on the East Rand.
The ballots everywhere arc showing big majorities in favour of a strike, and the situation is grave.
In order to safeguard the trains, certain districts in Orangia have been placed under martial law, with drastic regulations, including the shooting of dynamitards on sight.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11878, 14 January 1914, Page 5
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126SITUATION GRAVE. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVI, Issue 11878, 14 January 1914, Page 5
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