"SHOT ON SIGHT."

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1832, 19 August 1913, Page 5

"SHOT ON SIGHT."

SENSATIONAL STORY OF RAND STRIKE.

HOW DEATH STALKED TWO MINISTERS. A STRIKER'S WARNING. By Teleirraph—Press Association—Copyright ("Times"—Sydney "Sim" Special Cables.) (Reo. August 18, 0.55 p.m.) London, August 18. It is related that after tho meeting botween General Botha, the Union Prime Minister, General Smuts, Financo Ministar, and the strike leaders at tho Carlton Hotel, in Johannesburg, on July 5, when the conditions of tho armistice wero arranged, a striker called General Botha aside and advised him and his Ministers not to leave the hotel that evening. Asked tho reason, the striker stated that the exeoutive of the Trades Federation had issued instructions that if any Ministers w<sre found in Johannesburg they were to be shot on 6ight.

Subsequently one of tho Labour leaders, addressing a striker, stated that the delegates hod come to the conference fully armed, and had no agreement resulted the Ministers would not have left tlie hotel

DEATH' IN THE DRAIN-PIPES.-(Rec. August 18, 11.40 p.m.) London, August 18. The "Daily Telegraph's" Johannesburg correspondent states that a sensation has been caused by the discovery of a bag of blasting gelignite in the Central Fire Brigade Station. Bombs, with detonators and fuses attached, were also found in drains in different parts of the city, indicating either tho existence of a, scheme to destroy the city, or that tho miscreants wero afraid of being caught with /explosives after the riots of July last, and hid them. ROUND-T4BLE CONFERENCE. (Rec. August 18, 11.10 p.m.) Cape Town, August 18. Owing chiefly to the attitudo of the Trades Federations, the Government has abandoned the proposed Industrial Commission, and substituted a departmental investigation. A round-table conference between tho heads of tho mining industry and tho miners, and a. Labour inquiry into tho strike, in opposition to the Judicial Commission, are announced.