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innocent people some of them members of the
Provincial Council. They were of course promptly
released on orders from Pretoria, but it has
raised a lot of public feeling and it would
not do to repeat the blunder. They must
have captured all the hooligans in Johannesburg
for there were no less than 200 up at the
Magistrates Courts this morning for being
out at night without passes, and 200 miners
were roped in at Benoni last night - the same
crowd that made the place a hell in July
last. Dynamite explosions are of nightly occurrence
most of them due to the anxiety of those who
are in possession of dynamite to get rid of it
as quickly as possible. The death penalty
by military tribunal is a wonderful incentive.

You would see that our
friend Maitland Park got his knighthood