An African Massacre.

Hokitika Guardian, 28 May 1921, Page 3

An African Massacre.

AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. DISPLAY OF FORCE. AT ALEXANDRIA. LONDON, May 26. The “Daily Express” Alexandria correspondent reports: “The town is now quiet. An excellent effect produced hv a parade of marines from the cruiser Kalypso.”

CAIRO, May 26

The Egyptian Nationalist Leader, Zaghloud (who is held to he indirectly responsible for the recent outbreaks here and at Alexandria) has made an appeal fop peace. He has calk'd on the people to restrain their righteous anger against the Ministry, and to cease the demonstrations.

Taghloul. however, endeavours • to saddle tip, authorities with the responsibiltyj for the disorders.

Meanwhile, there was threatened a railway strike in Cairo. It did not materialise.

Two thousand fi\> hundred railway workshops workers have struck. They have been dismissed. The Government cotton store has been set afire. Ten thousand hales of cotton are involved.

THE AFRICAN DISASTER

CAPETOWN, May 27 The Israelite prophet, Noel), has been charged, in connection with the Bullhoet shootings,-with sedition in the Queenstown Court. He is .a big and confident man. ll < , is about fifty years old. Ho was dressed in good European clothing. Like all the other Israelites, his head is shaven.

Some officers and men who have fought in Africa and France say they never saw anything to equal the madness of the charge of the Israelite natives, who eared nothing for the bayonets or bullets. The natives took their punishment without a murmur.

One wounded man stated an arrangement for the battle was completed. The natives were drawn up in four squadrons, and instructed to wait till the troops wore at close quarters, and then rush them with swords ami assegais. The South African Native Congress sitting at Bloemfontein has carried a resolution strongly protesting against action by Europeans in similar circumstances.

The Congress then adjosrncd and marched in a procession, bareheaded, through their location. The hand was playing the “Dead March.” Then a service in memory of the native de’ad was held.