HERTZOG AND THE REBELS.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2401, 5 March 1915, Page 6

HERTZOG AND THE REBELS.

PLAIN SPEAKING IN UNION PARLIAMENT . . . Capo Town, March 2. The Union Assembly has,accepted Mr. 'J.: X. Merriman's amendment that a Select Committee bd appointed by the Speaker in reference to General Hertzog's position. General Smuts (Defence Minister) declared that for years General Hertzog had been the loudest-mouthed politician in South. Africa, but was now the most silent. He was one of the; primary causes of the .'recent .disasters, yot still sat m Parliament. . V l . • General Hertzog, in reply, said that he did not intend to. repudiate the rebellion, which. had been provoked by an expedition into German territory that had sheltered rebels after the Boer •War. . - •

j ' ;. ■ OFFICIAL DISCLOSURES. f (Kec. March 4, 5.45 p.m.) ■ •'•A'-mi-i ™ , - Lo .idon, March 4. • A White Book which has'been pub- {• '. J.shed .at Capo Town. discloses the mo- . : tiveß behind the. rebellion—factious hafci: red of the Itotha Government; racialistic i and Republican ideals, and personal amj; bition, " Beyers and Maritz made other f ■ ' abortive attempts before the [ actual rebellion occurred; The rebels 40 m arch to Pretoria, hoist the i Kepubhoan flag, and release and arm . two thousand interned Germans. It, was proved that. Maritz was comi mumcating'with German agents as early 1 Ju1y,1912. De . "Wet's secretary , yjtttea, the. rebels'. camp-fires 'nightly. to , European > news.*— , limes and Sydney"Sun" services.