THE BLACK PERIL.
OF RAND LAWLESSNESS.
JOHANNESBURG'S ESCAPE. By Telegraph—Press Association—Oojyrieht ("Times"—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables.) (Rec. August 15, 6.20 p.m.) Johannesburg, August 15. Giving evidenco before tho Judicial Commission appointed to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the Rand striko riots, Mr. Fitzgerald, in an affidavit, said that ho took tho full responsibility for organising- the special police force for duty on July 5. Six hundred men. wsro armed and posted in the suburbs for forty-eight hours. At that time • Europeans were endeavouring to induce the. natives to strike, and defy the compound managers, and also cut off tho water and light supplies. Had tho attempt succeeded, it would havo let 200,000 savages loose upon Johannesburg, and tho city would have become a hell upon earth.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1830, 16 August 1913, Page 5
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125THE BLACK PERIL. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1830, 16 August 1913, Page 5
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