SOUTH AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 27 May 1919, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

SPREAD OF BOLSHEVISM. SOCIALIST REPUBLIC THREATENED, Received May 28, 7.30 p.m. Pretoria, May 21. Evidence is increasing of the spread of Bolshevism in certain quarters and the constitution of an International Socialist League in the Transvaal, which states that special attention will be paid to the native workers, who must be educated in order to found a Socialist republic along with the wjiites when tlie hour of revolution strikes. —Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc. CLOSING DOWN MINES. A BAD TIME AHEAD.

deceived May 27, 7.5 p.m.

Capetown, May 21

Sir E, Wallers, president of the Johannesburg mine, in a letter to the Premier warns him that a critical position exists in the gold-mining industry, and nothing could now prevent a number of important mines closing shortly. He urges the Government's consideration of the position in view of the unemployment and distress that must result. The Minister of Mines, interviewed, said that the Government realised' the gravity of the position and were anxious to assist, but the Government could not undertake to keep the mines working at a loss. It is considering the appointment of a commission to inquire into the whole position, with special consideration of the problem of the relation of native colored labor to the mines. The Cape' Copper Company's mine in NViraaqualand has closed, rendering idle 300 Europeans and 3000 natives. A GRATEFUL GOVERNMENT. Received May 26, 7.30 p.m. Capetown, May 21. In the Assembly, the Minister for Railways announced that the Imperial Government had decided, to give the Union Government £500,000 worth of railway material in recognition of the national services rendered during the war. The Senate rejected a motion to abolish the present system of having a dual capital in Capetown and Pretoria and to establish one central capital.—Aus. N.Z. Cable Assoc.

ERADICATING THE INDIANS. Received May 20, 8 p.m. Capetown, May 23. The Assembly amended the Indians Bill to prevent Asiatics holding mortgages on property except as security for a bona fide loan or investment, also providing that any.Asiatic company which acquired fixed property after the Ist inst. should dispose of it within a given period. A clause was adopted giving any issuing authority in the Transvaal the right to refuse trading licenses to Asiatics without a reason.— Beuter.