RIOTS IN JOHANNESBURG

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 May 1911, Page 3

RIOTS IN JOHANNESBURG

IOXTRAORJJINARY SCEN lON. SERIOUS SITUATION. [BT KTjKCTHIC TEL«ORAPH— COPTRIUHT.] i PER PRESS ABSOLUTION:] ! (Ueceivcd This Day, 8.35 a.m.) i JOHANNESBURG, May 14. J In connection with the tram strike i the streets are being patrolled l and ; barricades are being erected at dan- ! ger points. ! The tram sheds are converted into i a camp. The military are ready u> i re-inPorce the police. ' Public opinioji is against :l.estiikers. owing to the inconvenion: , - 1 . caused. Glynn, who was a.rrested, and 1 who has 'been admitted to hail, headed the strikers in an.attempted rush on i the power station. The. stoppage ; would have plunged the streets, ! shops and houses into darkness, in ' addition to stopping the trams. ! Mounted police are distributed i through the town. J T'te prisons being full, others arrested have heen taken to the far*. Many police were on duty for 3') ; hours. i (Chronicle Note: The Johan-i.s-I burg tram sheds lie about one mile i From the Square, where the tram j lines radiate north, east, south in A west. The- sheds are situated in that quarter of the city known fl« ForvlsI)iirg, a rough locality almost wholly inhabited by Indians and forei.^iers. The "Fort" (a prison), is under - mo mile from the railway station. '.1 h-e tram senn'oe in Johannesburg ?.'i'l compare favourably with any pc-t----vice in any European city.)