Evening star., 1941-02-03
Order Is Restored
In South Africa After
Weekend Rioting
140 Sent to Hospitals
By Disorders Over
Support for War
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JOHANNESBURG, Union of South
Africa, Feb. 3-Order returned to
this capital of the Transvaal Prov
ince today after a weekend of
riotlng between soldiers and civil
ians suspected of antl-British SYM
pathies had sent approximately 14O
persons to hospital.
Military leaves were Cancelled as
authorities sought to prevent a re-
currence of the disorders, which
were put down only after police REIN
forcementS from surrounding towns
reSorted to tear gas bombs and
baton charges. Most of those in
jured were soldiers.
officials said there had been no
disturbances elsewhere in the rich
mining area of which this city is the
center.
RiOting Follows Meeting.
The rioting followed a meeting
Friday of the OSSeWabrandWag, an
organization embracing extreme re-
publicanism and generally regarded
here as anti-BritiSh.
The meeting itself, said to have
been mon political" was orderly,
but street fighting subsequently
broke out between soldiers and civil
fans wearing the full boards favored
by members of OSSewabrandWag.
Police quelled the disturbance, but
new disorders f1ared Saturday night
and continued yesterday. The down.
town area rang with the clamor Of
fighting and many windows were
smashed and automobiles wrecked
before the streets were cleared.
Among the buildings damaged
were the offices of the Transvaaler,
a Nationalist newspaper supporting
republican policy, and the Vader-
land, the paper of former Premier
j. B. NJ. Hertzog, who several times
in the last year has demanded that
Britain make peace with Germany
and Italy.
Affair Is MinimiZed.
Armored cars patroled the streets
long after the fighting had ended.
Except for a clash between two SOL
diers and a group Of civilians there
were no disorders last night.
The newspaper the Bloemfontein
Friend. commenting on the disorders
today, declared. 1T would be grave
mistake to make too much of them
as this was too little an affair"
The Rand gold mining area Of
Transvaan, with its infammable
record cannot be taken as a level
for the whole country"
This comment recalled to OBJ
servers the rebellion among Beers
which broke in the Transvaal in
1914 during the World War and
which was put down by Gen. Botha.
then Premier, and Gen. Jan Chris
tian Smuts.
Gen. Smuts, now Premier, warned
only last September that his gov
ernment would not hesitate to in
woke extraordinary war powers
against opposition leaders in the
Assembly who. he said, were adopt
ing an attitude of hostility toward
Great Britain.
Some members, Gen. Smuts said,
actually seem to hope for German
victory"
Shortly after the start of the
war. Gen. Hertzog, who was then
Premier, recommended that the
Unions relations with belligerent
countries persist unchanged as if
mn NOR u-erp bairc uape6 " He WAS
voted down and resigned as Premier,
but later introduced a motion in the
Assembly deploring British war
policy and calling for peace with
Germany. This, too, was voted down,
81 to SO. A similar motion was de-
feated last August. 83 to 65.
Gen. Hertzog resigned as men,
ber Of the South African Parlia-
ment last December II.