Africa.
UGLY BUSINESS. MINISTER OF DEFENCE IN A RIOT. UNHID Johannesburg, October 3. It: is officially reported that while General Smuts was addressing'ii meeting at Newlands ;i crowd of two thousand people violently broke it up, and General Smuts' followers were stoned. The police escorted Smuts to a carriage. The mob rough I v handled some of t|te party and attempted to drag out Smuts, amidst further volleys of stones. BOTHA'S REPUDIATION. (.Received 9.45 a.m.) Johannesburg, October 3. General Botha strongly repudiates the suggestion of his Nationalist opponents that Fruger when he was fleeing handed him 13-1 bars of gold valued at a quarter of a million, which were unaccounted for. Botha adds that tbe Treasury was almost depleted a fcthe time.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 30, 4 October 1915, Page 5
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122Africa. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 30, 4 October 1915, Page 5
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