FAMOUS BOER REBEL.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 130, 2 June 1923, Page 7

FAMOUS BOER REBEL.

MABITZ RETURNING TO AFRICA^ TIRED OF HIS EXILE. (Received 1 p.m/i CAPETOWN, June 1. i- G. Uaritz, the famous rebel, who over to the Germans with his hoops at the beginning of the war, arrived at Beira from Germany on a : Itotc'n liner. In the course of an inter- | new he said that he was tired of exile Mil was ready to submit himself to the authorities. He wished only to get home in furtherance of his ideal of a united people who could help England to manikin her position as a great world ?ow.r. B is not known what course the Government will adopt, but it is believed flat if Uaritz enters the Union the law take its course.—(A. and N.Z.) Maritz served against the British in tne South African War. and after the gate refused to take the loyalty oath. ae was then naturalised in German SmtWest Africa, and on the formation "'.the, South African Union returned to Wtish territory-. By the influence of general Beyers he was appointed to the •otnmand of a column for the conquest »' German South-west Africa, with his 5?"" at Upington on the Orange River, tel* seduced his f< " rc e> and "on Octon»_' r "' P roc laimed a South African •<psihc with himself as President-Cor-n was attacked by ff'Ws and completed broken 4 , 3 °* hut esca P e <i to Angola, dm! *" as ca Ptured by the Portu--6 fee some months later. After the 'ZliJ 16 Went t0 Geraianv. but apW y had not fou "<* life ' there so *«" as he imagined