THE RAND REVOLT.
REMARKABLE EVIDENCE. By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Capetown, May 8. Remarkable evidence was given before the martial law commission at Johannesburg, regarding the relations between the revolutionary leaders and the Nationalists.
An affidavit by a Dutch miner stated that he accompanied the Red leader Erasmus on a motor drive in the Free State just previous to the outbreak, where he had interviews with prominent Nationalists. They subsequent!? met at Fordsburg. On the day of the outbreak Erasmus announced that he had been through the Free State and they had the whole country behind them.
Major Trigger produced affidavits showing plans of the movement timed for January 18, but they proved abortive. Early in March Trigger obtained possession of part of the secret code of the Council of Action, which was used for telephoning to the council’s headquarters. Fisher, tne Red leader, responded to Trigger, who, using the code, asked for certain vegetables. Fisher replied that he had sent for cabbages and potatoes, meaning dynamite and detonators.
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Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1922, Page 5
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167THE RAND REVOLT. Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1922, Page 5
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