SOUTH AFRICA.
GENERAL SMUTS STONED. PANDEMONIUM AT A MEETING. Received Oct. 4, 12.10 a.m. Johannesburg, Oct. 3. It is officially reported that while General Smuts was addressing a meeting at Newlands a crowd of two thousand people violently broke it ,up, and General Smuts' followers were stoned. The police escorted Smuts to a carriage. The mob roughly handled some members of the party and attempted to drag out Smuts, amidst further volleys of stones. CAN HE AFFORD IT? PIFFLE PER CABLE. Received Oct. 4, 12.20 a.m. London, Oct. 3. Mr. Oppenheimer, the South African diamond pioneer, has offered one hundred pounds to each of the first four South Africans who gain Victorian Crosses.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1915, Page 5
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113SOUTH AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, 4 October 1915, Page 5
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