CABLE NEWS.

Hokitika Guardian, 22 March 1922, Page 2

CABLE NEWS.

AFRICvN AFFAIRS.

>CSI UA 1,1 AN AND N.Z. OAUI.E ASSOCIATION. STRIKE HAPPENINGS. CAPETOWN, March The COmniarido leaders, Erasiiias aim Viljbert; whd escaped when the' Reds were mopped up in the N'ewlands area, have been captured. FATE OF REI) LEADERS. (Received This Day at 8 a.m.) CAPETOWN, March 21. The fate of Fisher and Spendiff has been finally set at rest by the finding of Bed hendqarters at Fordsburg in the Market Hall. The text reads:— “ I died for what I believed to be the right cause.—(Signed) H. Spendiff, Percy Fisher.” On the reverse side was a message from Spendiff to wife : “ Good bye, Amy, we died by our own bullets, not theirs.”

HOW DANGER WAS AVERTED CAPETOWN, March 21

Information now gathered reveals how great was the danger last week. A handful of mounted police was all that stood between the Reds sweeping into the town from the west. On Thursday night the men were so worn out that when the Light Horse took over on Friday evening, the police dropped down where they stood, and went to sleep.

At Germiston, the most important railway junction in the Union- SubIn spec tdr O’Connor, with six railway police, bluffed a commando of six hundred Reds, aild succeeded in keeping them off until Friday evening, when the military took control.

BACK TO WCRK. Received This Day at 8 a.m.) _ CAPETOWN, March 21

All the unions concerned in the strike have now returned to work. Of 20,000 employed in the mines before thte strike upwards of five thousand remained at work, and of the remainder half are already back, or will be absorbed in the near’future. Competent opinion is that the remaining eight thousand will be absorbed in the course of twelve months, now that it is possible to adjust wages on an economic basis.