SOUTH AFRICA.
REPORT ON DE WET'S RISING. Capetown, Feb. 22. A commission of three judges reports that De Wet's rising was due to the lingering hope of a considerable section of the Transvaal and Free State of the restoration of independence, thinking Hertzog's antipathy to Botha gave tho opportunity. They were not conspicuously anti-British. Evidence disclosed that De Wet, after a visit to South-west Africa before the war, stated that the Germans were quite ready and expecting war iu Europe. They had the guns manned at Bierfontein ready to invade the Union, and 70,000 Mausers. Documents prove that De la Rey, immediately the war broke out, began to plot the rising.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1917, Page 5
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111SOUTH AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, 24 February 1917, Page 5
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