THE SOUTH AMERICAN REVOLT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2298, 4 November 1914, Page 5

THE SOUTH AMERICAN REVOLT

.'■•■'V-' AN ARMISTICE ,; DEPUTATION TO DE wkl. ■ /.'■'■ November 2. ... Colonel Alberts sent Colonel De Villiers to reconnoitre in the Lichtenburg (Transvaal) district. ' Rebels?- Tinder Colonel Classens, advanced under. :the white flag, and suddenly attacked De Villiers's force, taking 100 prisoners.. They also attacked Colonel' Alberts, who defeated them, and chased them twenty miles. Thirteen rebels-were killed and thirty-eix wounded, while 240 were made prisoners. .':'";. : ■■.'.. .'■■"■. Nearly all the prominent'rebels under ColonelMaritz have 1 been'accounted for. The "Daily. Mail's''" Durban corres; pondent says .that''the'Union, ment has granted five days' / armistice, and that a : deputation, composed mostly of loyal Dutch, has left for Harrismith (Orange Free State) to i interview General'Do Wet.•' \ ,

CRISIS, THOUGHT TO BE OVER,, (R*c. Novembe 3, 9.20 p.m;) • '. Gape Town, November 2. There is a feeling that the crisis ( is pa3t, though the danger will not' 1 be ended till De "Wet's command Eas been dispersed. : Ability, leadership, and source are all on tho side of the Government. Bloemfontein and the southern. and eastern. portions of the Dree State are sound'; the.danger zone is the northern area, where De Wet is" active, having actually forced Englishmen, to join Ijis commando.: