SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION
HOW BEYERS MET HIS DEATH * Pretoria, December 9.' Official—Commandant Dutoit engaged General Beyers's commando on the Sandspmiit, fifteen miles south of Bothaville.. General Beyers _ split the commando, and himself, with thirty men, fled to the Vaal near its junction with the Sandspruit (about 100 miles north of Blomfontoin). A sharp engagement took place on tho bank of the Vaal, which was flooded. ■ General Beyers,with a four, followers, tried to swim tlioir horses across. When liis horse was shot General ■■ Beyers fell into tho river and grasped _ ■ the tail of ft liorso, which swam towards the Loyalists. 1 He was'next seen ■drifting down the stream, calling, for assistance, and was riot seen again; A search " is being made for his body. He is believed to have neon wounded earlier in tho fight. Praotioally all his followand other
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2330, 11 December 1914, Page 5
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139SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2330, 11 December 1914, Page 5
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