WHAT MARTIAL LAW MEANS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 13, 15 January 1914, Page 5

WHAT MARTIAL LAW MEANS.

ABSOLUTE MILITARY POWER.

SOME SEVERE RESTRICTIONS.

Capetown, January 14. The martial law region is divided into nine control areas, each under the control of aii officer who has absolute power. Ordinary law remains in force and the civil courts continue, but these cannot override the orders and actions of the control officer or any officer administering martial law. Arrests may be made without warrant. All commissioned officers have full power to commandeer and requisition as in wartime. The control officer may restrict the movements of any person within his area, and also rogu> late and restrict the movements of Natives. Notwithstanding anything in any statute, publication in newsoapers,orotherwise of false or alarming reports or information calculated to promote ill-feeling is prohibited, also intimidation by strikers or the use of opprobrious epithets,'including "scab," ind "blackleg." Dynamitards, or even suspected dynamitards, may be shot on sight; also, persons with explosives in their possession, which cannot be explained, may be setenced to death by the military tribual.

TRAIN STOPPED ON VELDT.

FARMERS AS STRIKE-BREAKERS

liy ttLEOTKIO TfLEGRAFH —COFYRIGIIII I'IMES—OYDNEY SllN SPECIAL Ca6IES Johannesburg, January 13.

The strikers are peaceable, the leaders urging abstinence from violence.

The last train from Durban was stopped at Allendale, in • the middle >f the veldt. The driver detached the engine and returned, leaving the pasr ;engers stranded. The farmers are telegraphing to she cities that they are ready to asdst in breaking the strike.

The Government id acting in unison with Lord Gladstone, who intimated that Imperial troops would be availilde if -required.

PAPERS CLOSING DOWN.

DIFFICULTY IN TELECRAPHINC.

(Received S a.m.)

Johannesburg, January 14. The newspapers are closing down, the compositors being on strike.

Several dynamite outrages are reported. Telegraphing is difficult.

STRINGENT REGULATIONS'.

SHOOTING ON SIGHT.

(Received 10.40 a.m.) Capetown, January 14

The regulations under martial law qre very strict. Unauthorised persons in the neighbourhood of railways, telegraphs, telephones, power stations, and waterworks are liable to bo shot on sight.