SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2339, 22 December 1914, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION

REBEL LEADER SHOT London, December 20. Captain Fourie, who led a, rebel commando, las been shot. Tho"death sentence passed on his brother has been commuted, and he has been ordered to be imprisoned for five years. [Captain Fourie and forty-five of his commando were captured in the riverbed at .Nooitgedacht (100 miles cast of Johannesburg) by Colonel Pretorius.] Gape Town, Decomber 20. At the court-martial on the Fourie brothers, both of whom formerly were officers in the Defence Force, the elder bitterly reproachcd the British conduct in the Boer War, and declared that the British had injured Boer traditions on every opportunity. There was a greater honour to stand as a prisoner than as an officer in tho British.Army. He added: "There wero enough people on the veldt to rescue South Africa." CONROY CAPTURED.' Capo Town, December 20. Woulmarns Conroy, tho last of the rebel loaders, has been captured. GERMAN MONOPLANE. IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA. London,' December 20. Renter's Cape Town agent states that a German monoplane flew over the camp at, Cluiukaib, in German South-west Africa, and dropped two bombs. The seeend fell on a gretip of artillerymen; killing oos and wound.lcg eight,

CENERAL BOTHA. TAKING A SHORT HOLIDAY. . (Roc. December 21, 5.40 p.m.) London, December 20. General Botha is spending Christmas on the farm. Ho intends commencing tho_ campaign in German South-west Africa in January.—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)