South Africa

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 136, 2 November 1914, Page 5

South Africa

fcOKG-PLANNED REBLtiaO-v GERMANY AT THE BACK OF ;i\ A REBEL FORCE DEi'LAXEu. , THE DUTCH GENERALLY LOlAu London, October 3D. tfi South African correbprniiicnt o! tile Iveoing Standard? states that tin- r» fcellion was well-considered, as is provml •y a remarkable interview which -recently appeared in the New York qiohe. A former field-cornet in the Boer army, ■arned Thicdeniann, told a reporter that the revolt had been planned for years. -Thousands of Boers had settled >B the German colonies after the war and cherished the idea of redeeming their country. Many ex-leaders all over the^ globe were keeping in touch wifa each other, in rcadincßs for such eventuality. Thiedemann produced a ult.-r from a Boer leader, dated Suptewbi r -20 containing the passage, "Botha does not answer me. I think it a shame the iiu-n do not jump in and clean up the Fnulish now there is such a splendid lam doing ail I can to stir ui> euutiment."

Thiedemann had letter;! from ii&nt*, telling what the Boers contemplated. Ho said the rebels were thoroughly equipped with the most modem (■■ riuun arms, sent through German E.ist vtiica. flier had endless quantities of aims tuti ammunition, and the latest and niofi improved field artillery and minium, guns, Capetown, October 30. The attitude of the leading uti/<n» throughout the country w quiai- ioafident. General de Wft i« adi-m-me extraordinarily bitter mtionaliat ,i,U rences. He has proclaimed j mutinoom. like independent republic in -\'u el/r» Orangia, with Hoilbron a-> uipitj Tie uses bogus authority m an dim,, . ft, commandeer the mori i<,noiaut Imrghers, under threat ol tin ton. "iitioa of their proptrty. The. Dutch papers uiunimi'ii ,i«. ' ■ounce the rebellion. General Botha repoit tm' i,, re" commandoes are seattu. i, mi m ,j. to reunite. Beyers ha« <l' i m , t , , m . known direction. Mr. Merriman, in a &)■ i i l.g the rebellion, said he In 1 urti'M'i • to persuade General Both. iot u i hi« valuable life on the bt> Mi, UU u! Botha replied that he vu.n i ( ,t ids Dutch peopk- to enti- c , I i m(h their ■brethren unless h< u ~P r. sonally. Colonel Alberts conijili i I at t t*»d ' the rebels niui.c Clatt i r \, traburg, Classen was \\i i , in . „e. tured. t Lore 1170 Marqu d iii < Details of ■' Geim v , . gola show tv twelu ' , U1 , u [ twenty nnth • cavalry , •, , , tury post of Xautila*, , n-.ui I ~* interview wit:-, the m r , > t were about to retire, >, .i ~' guese officer --rajped u < t. 0 r E bridle. Tho Germans pons, where i;m.ii the , ,i_ killing three. '

HIGH 00 M.'.;S 310. ■.•:.'- ! ■;.'... , Welling. -. •.-. ~,.:, ..■ ■; \ The me-,-, i . . j ~,. calved from : i ti'.- High i t :■■.;;■.■■- London, October 1\), 10.. Official: ! n, ; Gov. - , - South Africu a t .nits i (1 ~ t rebels surroi.i'rod a 'in < n October 25. tUncral MT , , j ,ti l for the euennV; patiol > , ",i ing one, wounding on . miu hi,," seven. ' * ALLIES' SUOCIi" is J'll 13 CAMEROON >' Pari'i • h toiiri- m. Official: Two Franco lit 11 n columns, after serious fighting, o( i,».d Edea, m the Cameroon:!. SUPERSTITIOUS 111 U HERS. :. INFLUENCED BY MONOMANIAC. Received 1, 2.30 p.m. Capetown, October 30. It is stated that the into General d« hi Rey, who was shot by a sentry, attached great importance tu the prophecies of Van Rcnaburg, a religions monomaniac in the Riehtenhurg district including a prediction that Generate Beyers and De Wet would be instrumental in the restoraton of tho old repubie, also that Beyers and his men would be invisible in battle. Captured rebels admit that tiny were influenced by Va« Rensburg's prophecies. His friends beJieve that Do Wet is suiieriiiL- from ieligious mania.