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This South African strike, centering about Johannesburg, has almost assumed the proportions of civil war. Armed commandos of strikers are continually coming into conflict with government troops, and are trying to cut railroad communications. Similar commandos of citizens are being recruited to fight the strikers. The strike is unique in that for the first time airplanes have been used to quell the disturbance. Bombs have been dropped on commandos of strikers to excellent effect, and provisions and ammunition have been dropped to besieged police. This appears to be one of the best strike breaking methods yet devised...
...first of a series of five lectures under the auspices of the Harvard Mission will be given in Emerson A this evening at 7.15 o'clock. Dr. Frederick B. Bridgman, of Johannesburg, South Africa, will speak on the social conditions of laborers in the South African mines, and the effects of the war on the colonies of South Africa. Dr. Bridgman has spent most of his life there and has developed a great social service work...
D.M.D. -- Maxwell Leon Aronson, of Johannesburg, S. Africa; Cleophas Paul Bonin, of N. Grosvenordale, Conn.; Cyrus King Briggs, of Portland, Me.; Thomas Dalton Brown, Ph.B (Brown Univ.) 1903, of Boston; Arthur Benedict McCormick, A.B. 1909, of Waltham; Edward Russell Murphy, of Winchester; Herman Ashton Osgood, A.B. 1911, of Roxbury; Barnard Sagall, of Boston; Samuel Saul Sharfman, Hartford, Conn.; Barnet Maurice Wein, of Roxbury...
Professor Davis has just returned from his trip to South Africa as a guest of the British Association for the Advancement of science. His journey covered over 20,000 miles and led through the most characteristic sections of the country, including the famous gold mines of the Rand at Johannesburg, the great diamond mines of Kimberley, the Victoria Falls of the Zambesi river, and the so-called Dwyka glacial conglomerate of Permian date, a sheet of unstratified clay, and boulders covering an area of about 200,000 square miles, some account of which will be given by Professor Davis...
...Physicians and Surgeons. For the last fifteen years he has been one of the Outlanders in the Transvaal and has seen the trouble grow up until the crisis came last fall. At the time of the famous Jameson raid he was a member of the Reform Committee of the Johannesburg Outlanders. In his lecture tonight Dr. Wolff will give an outline of the condition in which the Outlanders have been of late years and will attempt to show the justice of their claims...