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Show STRIKERS USE EXPLOSIVES TO WRECK TRAIN IN AFRICA Dynamite Placed Under Mail Train and Wheels of Engine Blown Off, But Passengers Escape. Johannesburg, Union of South Africa. Attempts to dynamite three passenger trains and the arrest of principal strike leaders put a serious aspect on the strike situation of the -South African railway men on Friday. Sticks of dynamite were exploded under the Cape mail train between Dever and Jeorges Goch, Friday night, but no passengers were injured. The wheels of the engine were blown off and the track damaged. A- second explosion ex-plosion occurred on the railway between be-tween Johannesburg and Cleveland. Another attempt to wreck a train was made between Witpoortje and Liupaardsvlei, but the charge of dynamite dy-namite was found by a track walker, just before the arrival of a crowded passenger train from .Zeirust. The government is credited with a desire to fight the trades federation to an end. The principal strike leaders lead-ers arrested are Toutsma, secretary. and Nield, assistant secretary of the Railyway Men's society; Waterson, secretary of the South Africa labor party, and Colin Wade, a labor member mem-ber of the Germiston town council. They had been prominent in the last Rand strike. All were held without bail and charged with sedition. , It is reported that martial law will be declared in Pretoria. |