THE SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 54, 3 July 1915, Page 4

THE SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION

The Blue Book on the South African rebellion is one of the strangest mid most fascinating of State documents, the London Daily News considers. It is a narrative of the outbreak and of ilii' efforts of the I'nion Government to suppress it without bloodshed. 'I luce rather differenl forces were at work to make the rebellion. There were first the old Republicans, who were never properly reconciled to British rule am! hankered alter independence. 'these were much worked upon by the seer Van Rensburg. The second group consisted of Maritz and Ids associates. Marit'/ had lor some two years before the war been in communication with the Germans, and he was actively conspiring from the beginning] of the war. The third group, the cen-|

tie of which was General Beyers, was moved chiefly by opposition to the expedition against. South West Africa. This group intended to raise the rebellion at Potehefstroom, where the Citizen Army was in training, on September 15, but the accidental shooting of General de la Bey upset the plan. In the end it was Maritz who gave the signal for the explosion.