The African Rising.
Cafetown, Feb 22
A commisaion of three judges report that Dewet's rising was due to a lingering hope by a considerable section in the Transvaal and Free State, of the restoration of independence, thinking Herizog's antipathy to Botha gave tbe opportunity. They were not conspicuously anti-British.
The evidence disclosed that Dewet after bis visit to South-west Africa, before the war, stated the Germans were quite ready, and were expecting war in Europe. They had guns manned at Bierfontein and were ready to invade the Union with 70,000 mausers. Documents prove Da La Ray, immediately war broke out, began to plot a risiDg.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19170224.2.14.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1917, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
105The African Rising. Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1917, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in