Six Hundred Arrests Made as Result of Police Descent at Durban Durban, Nov. 14. armed with tenngas" bona" and raid made by the polic
wearing gas-masks, today on the native compounds in an attempt to seck poll tax defaulters was peaceful, but an exciting incident occurred when a labourer attempted: to assault the Police Commissione1 Colonel de Villiers, whose fist, how-fever, found the. labourer's" chin, Another native charged a European detective with a battle axe, but he was stunned before he di damage.
The Minister of the whole raid, as a result of which 6,000 natives were examined and 600 arrests made, The poll tax defaulters wore later tried in special courts and ordered to pay the tax or serve a month prison, All is now quiet. The Minister of Justice returned to Pretoria by air, as he came—Reuter,
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