SOUTH AFRICA.
TRIAL OF REBELS. GENERAL SMUTS' LOYALTY. Johannesburg, Oct. 17. Ten men bearing Dutch names, and a woman have been arraigned in con-ncction-swith the Newlands riots. In the evidence it was stated that while General Smuts was speaking he was violently accused of murdering Fourie and also the Rand strikers. One of the prisoners shouted, "Kill him!" The others jumped on a table, exhibiting and kissing photographs of Fourie and Beyers. General Smuts, at Potchefstroom, replying to the Nationalist cry, "Botha and Smuts must go," declared that he would like nothing better than deliverance from the hell in which he had lived for two years, Ibut the Government would stick to the people to the end. He added that if the Nationalists, after the election, found themsclvea in a small minority and went in for an armed protest, they again would have martial law.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/TDN19151019.2.54
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1915, Page 8
Word count
Tapeke kupu
145SOUTH AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1915, Page 8
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Taranaki Daily News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in