SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 48, Issue 14611, 9 March 1922, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN STRIKE

A GRAVE FEATURE. WHITE AND BLACK IN CONFLICT. Cress Association—Electric Telegraph CopyrigL CAPETOWN, Wednesday. Fighting occurred all night long at Voededorp, the strikers attacking natives in sheer wantonness. Two natives and an Indian woman were killed, and three natives were taken to hospital. A native doctor was wounded.

A grave feature is the not unnatural disposition of natives to retaliate. Police casualties in yesterday’s affray with commandoes are one officer and two men wounded. —Reuter. UNDIPLOMATIC TACTICS. CAPETOWN, Wednesday. The Premier, in a statement in the Assembly, said that evidently the tempers of both parties to the Rand strike wore growing worse. He declared that the Chamber of Mines ’ reply to the federation was couched in a deplorable tone, followed by a worse move on the other side in declaring a general strike. A bright spot in the situation was the exemplary conduct of the police. He strongly deprecated the disparaging references made regarding them. So far it had been unnecessary to take special precautions to maintain order, but it might become necessary if Ibe situation grew worse. His services were always at the disposal of the disputants in an endeavour to effect a settlement.—Aus and N.Z. Cable Assn.