SOUTH AFRICAN REVOLT.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 31 October 1914, Page 7

SOUTH AFRICAN REVOLT.

LARGE FORCES MOBILISED MORE PRISONERS TAKEN. Cape Town, October 29. Very large force 6 have been mobilised with a view to ending the whole insurrectionary movement. GERMANS EXTENDING THEIR RAILWAY. London, October 29. Official reports of Maritz's defeat bv Major/Brits state that the latter's horses were exhausted and bo was unable to take full advantage of the victory. , ' . ' Count von Schwenn, who was. tafien prisoner, stated that the Germans are extending the railway in German SouthWest Africa from Kalkfontein to a southern terminus, a hundred miles further on. RIFLES RETAINED AFTER THE STRIKE. Loiidon, . October 29. Sir James Sivewright, in an interview, said South Africans in London had known for some time of the disaffection among a section of the Boers. An important factor had- been tho i Labour crisis in January last, when rifles and ammunition wes-e distributed among tho burghers, and nono of the weapons were returned. Many secret meetings had been held and he (Sir J. Sivewright) believed General Delarey was going to one when he was shot. Sir Jamos Sivewright was formerly general manager of thftjSouth African telegraphs, and Commissioner of Crown Lands and Public Works in Cape Colony. • MARITZ'S TREATY RIDICULED. (Rec. October 30, 8.20 p.m.) Caps Town, October 30. Mr.- MerrimaH, Premier of Cape Colony, has denounced the rebellion. Ho ridiculed Maritz's -treaty with the Gorman rebels, and declared that Maritz , was being used by tho Germans in their own interests, The South African Union was part of a groat Commonwealth jjt&ojl for liberty, wd tho common

I protection. Men who broke the path , of obedience should have the direst ( punishment. , 1 THE REBELS' OUTLOOK. 1 (Rec. October 30, 9.15 p.m.) ' London, October 36. The "Westminster Gazette," in com. menting on the South African rebellion, says: "Suppose Britain is beaten at sea and her power destroyed, what will •, be the' rebels' outlook? Merely the j substitution of the German colonial sys- j torn for the British self-government •■, system. Is that a promising outlook ( for a self-governing colony ? Is it one ] for which the free independent burgher, , master of his own country, living under ] a Government he himself has chosen, j would desire to take up arms? General Botha has only to put that question to his countrymen to obtain a rally which will quickly dispose of the rebel party. GENERAL HERTZOG'S ADVICE. ; (Rec. October 30, 10.55 p.m.) ' London, October 30. Router's Cape, Town' correspondent j states that General Hertzog is endeavouring to meet the rebel leaders andpersuade them to return to their homes. A message from Bloemfontein reports that although there have been a fow specific acts of armed resistance in the northern part of Orangia, there has been no bloodshed. MORE REBELS CAPTURED. (Rec. October 30, 10.55 p.m.) fc Cape Town, October SO; j Twenty-four of the Marit'z rebels surrendered to Colonel Vandervcnter at n Brand Vlei. jj ■Brand Vlei »'s tho province df'Cal- r . Wnia, and is about 300 miles north of Capo Town and about 120 of the German border. ' ' s MORE SURRENDERS. '' 5 The Prime Minister has received the following message from the High Commissioner in London, under date of October 30:— Official.—One hundred African rebels surrendered without fighting, including officers. Tho capture of one hundred N r.nd twenty others is expected at Ondersto Dooms. Ondorate Doomb is in the province of fi Galvinia, 25 miles north of Brand .Vlei, ]j