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— Press Assn.-
Feeling Against Natives in South Africa KILLING OF POLICEMEN
(By Telegraph
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(Received 22, 10.15 a.m.) CAPETOWN, Sept. 22. Following the deaths of two white and one native polieemen, who wore killed by excited natives in a raid on an kotel, 2000 wliites held an indignation meeting at Yereeniging. After many stormy speeches they saw a native sitting on the outskirts of the gathering. They prarsucd him and lynched him. News of the native's death shocked South Africa, but feeling is tense. Further outbreaks are feared. The Yereeniging meeting was enraged by the refusal of General Smuts, Minister of Justice, to attond, and passed a resolution* that a commando should be formed to rido to Pretoria and forcibly bring him back to the meeting. The meeting also resolvcd to demand Government sanction to use tear gas and aeroplanes to force the murderers of the polieemen to surrender. The meeting also acclaimed a proposal that the native settlement should be rushed and the population stoned.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 212, 23 September 1937, Page 5
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