DURBAN NOW QUIET

Chronicle (Levin), 17 January 1949, Page 5

DURBAN NOW QUIET

Eighty-Five Were Killed Received Monday, 9.45 a.m. DURBAN, Jan. 10, Durban is nOW quiet after the African Indian riots of the past three days. Indian cafe owners returned to their shops and some opened iip for business behind their boarded up shop fronts. Hn. the suburbs some Indians rummaged among their blackened hotries, seeking any belonghigs that might have escaped fire or piilage. Armed troops patrolled the streets ready for any fresh otitbreaks of fighting. Isolated skifmishes took pFace between the police and Africans on the outskirts of Durban this morning and the district police commandant at GiairWood, in an outlying district of Durban, reported that the Indians and Africans were causing sofne trouble there. Two Africans were killed and tirree injured when a cartload of armed Indians attaek-

ed them at Oiairwood this morniiig. The exact casuaity figures for the three days' fighting are not known, , but . the South African Ministries of Justice and Defellce stated that the number of deaths officially reported was 85 up to noon 4oday. This figure included one Dhropean..The deaths were divided equ^ily Ibetween the Africans and Jndians. The Ministries' statement said that 309 Africans and 249 Ihdians had been detained in hospital, and 312 had been treated and- sent home. The Minister of Justice, Mr. C. R. Swart, announced that a commission of inquiry would be appointed by Cabinet to investigate the cause of the riots.