SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2338, 21 December 1914, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION

JUSTICE WILL BE DONE GENERAL BOTHA'S VIEWS Gape Town, December 18. t General Botha, in ail interview, said:'* "The Dutch Loyalists have discharged their painful duty. I now wish the cur- t tain to be rung down without coritro- 1 versy or recrimination, regarding ring-, leaders. You can be sure justice will) be done. The last three months have * been the saddest of my life } hunting, down my old comrades." , ' \ General Botha paid a tribute to Gen-v eral Smuts, who, he said, had- - dond greater work than anybody. ) • Van der Linden will .be -court-mari tialled at Pretoria for attempting toi organise a rebellion'. REBELS CAPTURED AN OFFICIAL .REPORT. London, December 18. } Offioial.—Colonel Pretorius reports] that he followed spoor' and found'.Com-' 1 mandant Fourie's laager'itta stroll# position in the riverbed at Nooitgedacht, 110 milos east of Johannesburg*' Major Trews's police by a surround-"', ing movement from the north closed' the path of escape, the fight lasted until da.rk, when the rebel ••position wag* gallantly stormed -with a loss o£ tea''' killed and twenty-one wounded. • The rebels had two killed _ and. wounded. Forty-five were' taken pris* oners, including Fourie; - ! THE TOTAL CASUALTIES. .. TO THE UNION; FORCES. Gape Town, Dtcemtier l! 4. ..The total casualties sustained by thd _ Union Forces in Africa are 439; com- 1 prising 337 caused by the rebellion, 103.-, in Damaraland, and by death 159. v Y FINANCIAL LOSSES'. MANY STOREKEEPERS -RUINED,., j . (Reo. December 20, 3.40 p.m.) Cape Town, December 191 \ It is estimated that the losses bj) J looting in Northern' Orangia are £200,000; and many storekeepers havs j been ruined as the Tesult of the rebel'c'' depredations. • VAN DER LINDEN. , SENTENCED TO TWO: YEARS, ! (Reo. December 20,'8:40 p.m.) Cape Town, December 19, Van der Linden, who wa3 found guilty of organising a rebellion, has. been sentenced to two years' impris-i onment. . . . '.; '