SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION.
.OLD-. BITTERNESS. REVIVED. Capetown, Sunday. Commandants Woulmarns and Conroy, the Inst of the rebel leaders, have been captured. At the court-martial on Captain Foiiria and hi 3 - brother, both of whom were formerly officers in the defence force, tbe elder brother bitterly reproached the British for their conduct of the Boer war. He declared that they injured Boer traditions at every opportunity and maintained that there was greater honour to Btßiid there as a prisoner than aa an officer in the British 'army. He added that there were enough people on the veldt to rescue South Africe. Captain Fourie was sentenced to death and shot. His brother was also'sentenced to death, but the sentence was afterwards commuted to imprisonment for five years.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 732, 23 December 1914, Page 5
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125SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 732, 23 December 1914, Page 5
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