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Show TRADE IS PARALYZED li SOUTHJF AFRICA General Strike Is Proclaimed and Martial Law Has Been Declared.' CAPE TOWX, Union of South Africa, Af-rica, Jan. 13. A general strike throughout South Africa was pro claimed tonight by tho Trados Federation, Federa-tion, and Tho Rand miners, by a two-thirds two-thirds majority vote, voted to join in the movement. Governmental retaliation retalia-tion was swit't. It took tho form oil tho proclamation of martiul law. This was tho only step the authorities authori-ties believed adequate to meet the situation, for the striko of tho miners moans not only the turuing looso of tho most turbulent spirits in Tho Hand, but raisos tho question of the position of tho nativo workers. If tho miners actually obev tho Btrikc order tho government gov-ernment will take stopn to send tho natives, under escort, back to their kraals. This means that about two hundred thousand natives mu&t be marchod back by road to their honiOB at enormous cost. It will be most difficult, diffi-cult, after the ond of the striko, to recruit re-cruit them again. Tn brief, such a step would moan disaster for The Band for many j'onrs. Another Crisis Expected. PRETORIA. Uuion of South Africa. Jan. 13. Another crisis will bo reached tomorrow in the strike situation in South Africa, as tfio minora and all other organized workmen aro to be ordered to quit work in sympathy with the railroad workers. Efforts are being mado by tho authorities au-thorities to Bend back as many as pos-siblo pos-siblo of tho negro mine laborers to their homes before the expected clash. The natives aro now prohibited from leaving their inclonures after dark. Passenger Train Deserted. LA DY BRAND, Union of South Africa, Af-rica, Jan. 13. A train full of passengers pas-sengers was deserted early today bv the train crew, the membors of which, struck after the train left Durban at midnight. Tho train, besides passongers. pas-songers. was carrying a heavy mail. It was takon to Allendale siding, whoro the engineer uncoupled tho locomotive and returned to his home. |