WARFARE OPENS.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 March 1922, Page 5

WARFARE OPENS.

STRIKERS AND POLICE. SERIOUS ENCOUNTERS. DYNAMITE OUTRAGES. B> Telegraph.—Press Assn—Copyright Received March 2, 12.55 a.m. Capetown, March 1. The Government is working the power station at Johannesburg for lighting purposes. Dynamiting is increasing. There have been six more outrages or attempts against railways, power, light and water supplies. The police warn all cyclists and others that they will be stopped at night owing to« the increased use of dynamite, and emphasise the consequen ces of disobeying an order to stop. Captain Fulford, district commandant of police on the East Rand, says officially that the Boksburg commando is 250 strong, headed by a red fldg, and is apparently contemplating an attack on the gaol, with a view to releasing the commandottees recently arrested after an affray. Police went up and ordered the commando to disperse, and in reply the commando was ordered forward. He (Captain Fulford) ran to the sidewalk and ordered a baton charge, which was carried out with three mounted troops. The commando met the police, cheering and showering stones and rocks. As the road was asphalted it was clear the strikers had previously filled their pockets with stones, while they were also armed with clubs and stocks. Towards Boksburg Lake the police met a further shower of stones and pistol shots. Thirty foot police arrived and lined across the main street with fixed bayonets. “Then,” adds Captain • Fulford, “five or six revolver shots were ; fired in my direction, and I ordered the , firing section from a lorry to reply, ; with a view to stopping further firing, i The strikers fired out of the darkness ; from the direction of the open veld. When calm was restored light showed that two commandoites were shot and another bayoneted, making three killed, named Ackerman, Krause and Terblanche. In response to an urgent call for reinforcements from Boksburg north I sent two troops in a lorry and foot police. Six arrests were made and two strikers were shot. Three constables were taken to hospital.” Captain Fulford says he had to deal with the entire commando with only three troops of police. He expresses the opinion that if martial law is not declared there will be further considerable loss of life. Particulars of minor casualties have not been received. Reuter. STRIKERS KILLED. AFFRAY OUTSIDE GAOL. Received March 1, 7.30 p.m. Capetown, Feb. 28. An affray took place outside the Boksburg gaol, where strikers intimated a worker. The strikers then fired five shots at the police, who replied with a volley and two strikers were killed. A police officer and two men were wounded.