Newspaper clipping titled: "The situation is thoroughly in hand"
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“Newspaper clipping titled: "The situation is thoroughly in hand"”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/9504
- Description
- Newspaper clipping titled: "The situation is thoroughly in hand" with a photograph of four men, (from left to right) Brigadier-General P.S. Beves, General Smuts, Lieut.-Colonel E.F. Thackeray, and Lieut.-Colonel J.H. Blaney. The caption below the photograph reads: "Photographed on Monday morning for "The Pictorial": the men who directed operations against the revolutionaries in Johannesburg over the last tragic week-end. Left to right: Brigadier-General P.S. Beves, controlling the Witwatersrand area; General Smuts, Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, in supreme command of the operations against the rebels; Lieut.-Colonel E.F. Thackeray, District Staff Officer, No. 8 Military District; and Lieut.-Colonel J.H. Blaney, Permanent staff, Union Defence Force. General Smuts arrived in Johannesburg from Cape Town at midnight on Saturday, and took control of the operations. In an interview he expressed the utmost confidence that not only was the situation thoroughly in hand, but that it would not be long before peace was restored and the Red Rebellion completely curshed!".
- Subject
- Rand Rebellion -- South Africa -- History -- Photographs
- Fordsburg (Johannesburg, South Africa) -- History -- Photographs
- Strikes and lockouts -- Gold mining -- South Africa -- History -- Photographs
- Witwatersrand (South Africa) -- History -- Photographs
- Revolutions -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century -- Photographs
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/38966
- Date Issued
- 1922
- Provenance
- Gold Fields Collection
- Type
- Image
- Genre
- Newspaper article
- Extent
- Newspaper cutting: 1 photo (mounted) 13.5 x 18.5 cm,jpg
- Format
- jpg
- Language
- English
- Location - Physical Location
- Original held at Cory Library for Humanities Research, situated at Rhodes University.
- Location - Copy -- Shelf Locator
- PIC/A 2715_122
- useGuidelines
- In order to obtain a license for the use of any of the images apply to the Cory Library at cory@ru.ac.za
- Item sets
- Gold Fields : Rand Rebellion 1922
- Hierarchies
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“Newspaper clipping titled: "The situation is thoroughly in hand"”, Cory Library and Historical Archives, accessed 28 December 2025, https://digitalarchives.ru.ac.za/s/cory/item/9504
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