DIAMOND FIELDS
TROUBLE FEARED: (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received this clay at 10 a.m.) , CAPETOWN, January/^ ■ The situation in Namaqualand is becoming .strained. A few thousand disaffected residents, who claim the right to participate in the wealth of the diamond fields' are' augmented by hundreds from Vaal River fields, including so mo desperadoes. Monday’s programme aims at hoarding lorries after the demonstration at Port Nollots and travelling sixty miles to the State diggings at Alexander Bay. lt is regarded as impossible for the police to de> lend the twenty miles frontage, even ii' guarded by barbed wire, and a con-llii-t. seems inevitable.
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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1929, Page 4
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