Flare-Up Of Racial Trouble Threatened In Durban
Received Fridajq 10.15 a.m. DURBAN, May 12. The police stood by in Dufban today to prevent racial disturbances after Indian buses had been Stoned 3v Africans last right and early tcday. Bus windscreens and windows were sniashed along a haifmile stretch of a road in an out-'-T? non-European suburb. No one was injured. One man was arrested. . , .. ^ An Indian* bus driver said that ten buses were stoned, but the police gave the figure as four. The first attacks occurred _ late vesterday afternocn. Indians livinp I in the suburb te^phoned the nolicp. 'alleging that Africans had threat- ? j ©ned to burn and destroy their 1 1 homes and shops tonight. J EFhtv -flve pe'onle were kilied "land 1000 injured in rioting in Ditr"iban between January 13 and lQthis ;,year-
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Chronicle (Levin), 13 May 1949, Page 5
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