A SENSATION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2281, 15 October 1914, Page 5

A SENSATION

.■ PRO - GERMAN REBELLION

ORGANISED

MARTIAL 'LAI PROCLAIMED

VIOLENT' FIGHTING IN

GERMAN STRATEGY FOILED

AT'DAGGERS DRAWN

AUSTRO-ITALiAN WAR CLOUD

The aspect of the military situation in'this Franco-Belgian theatre of. the war appears to be undergoing a radical change. Heavy fighting .) is reported in the region around.Lille, which fortress seems to be the centre of important operations,,aid along to the corner south-west i of Ostend, and there is said to be a distinct movement of German troops ■ to eastward. and north-east in Northern France. v Further news, of the.Belgian retirement from Antwerp shows that the Belgian Army is intact,-with its war material. The Government has removed frota OstencLto Havre, in French territory. In the eastern theatre the Russians'are reported to have raised the siege of Przemysl with the "' ' object of freeing a.large army to'meet the Austro-German Army. The strategy of the Germans in their, war against Russia is described as ■.■' the "strategy of despair."', A.crisis is rapidly approaohing m the Austro-Italiau situation,]; whore, to judge from the provocative and ■ irritating tactics'bf the Austrian Governor of Trieste, it appears as if ,war can only now~be averted by a-miracle, for the population there is .largely Italian. 'Turkey is again attracting attention by the sus- -..•' picioua .character of' her naval movements. A Turkish .-v.; cruiser) believed to be the German Goeben, has appeared off the Rusiqi sian Black Sea port of Varna. The most startling news of the day, ; however, comes from South Africa, where a rebellion, headed by a traitor to the Union—ono Colonel Marits' —has been organised. Colonel • Maritz now carries the. rank of a G orman general, and openly • boasts of his intention to overrun South Africa in the interests.of Germany, which country has apparently promised unlimited war material. This act of treachery has caused a tremendous sensation right throughout the Union, and .martial law has now been proclaimed, and the most drastic steps are being taken to crush the rebellion. It is now 6tated that the TCceut surrender of two/ squadrons of South African Mounted , . Rifles was the result of an act of treachery by an accomplice of Colonel Maritz.