FRESH REBELLION IN SOUTH AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2293, 29 October 1914, Page 5

FRESH REBELLION IN SOUTH AFRICA

HEADED BY DE WET AND BEYEES , GOVERNMENT TAKING DRASTIC ACTION • , , London, October 28. _ Official—Generals Christian de Wet and Beyers have headed a rebellion in Northern Orangia and .the Western Transvaal. They have seized the Government officials at Hulbron (in the Orangia), and imprisoned, them. . A train was stopped at Reitz, in the Bethlehem district, Orangia, and members of the South African Defenco Force taken out and disarmed. The Government Is taking drastic measures to cope with tho rebellion. General Christian do Wet was the most celebrated guerrilla fighter oftJio Boer War, and tho pursuit of his elusive commando and himself by the British troops during tho later campaigns of the South Afncan War read almost like a romance. He began as a field cornet in 1881, and served m the First Boer War. During the second war lie was General and Commander-in-Chief of the Free State Army, and afterwards compiled an interesting history of the war ("Three Years' War"). Since 1907 de Wet has held State cabinet rank as Minister of Agriculture in Orangia. , _ ~~ - • General Beyers, until quite recently, was Commandant-General of the Union Defence Force, resigning—under much public odium—just when the Government had completed its preparations fop an invasion of German South-West Africi Bevers becan as a private m the South Afncan War, and rose to be Assistant cLman&mt-General for the North District, Transvaal. H© was Chairman of the Vereeniging Peace Conference. THE COLLAPSE OF THE MARITZA REVOLT. (Rec. October 28, 10.40 p.m.) Cape Town, October 27. Official.—The enemy at Kakamas (50 miles from the, German border) comprised Germans and German-Boers. Colonel Maritz was wounded in the leg, but not dangerously. Tho South African losses wore seven wounded. Many of the rebels surrendered at Kakamas, including several who were wounded! ' Maritz's force retreated over the Schuitdrift, abandoning their camp stores and a wagon load of ammunition. (Rco. October 28, 11.80 p.m.) Capo Town, October 27. A further 124 of Maritz's rebels, including five officers, have surrendered.