SOUTH AFRICA.
HERTZOG S RESPONSIBILITY
WILL NOT REPUDIATE
REBELLION
CAPE TOWN, March 3
The Legislative Assembly , accepted •Mr Merriman's amendment that a select committee be appointed by the Speaker of the House in preference to General Hertzog'.s motion. General .Smuts declared that for years General Hertzog had been the loudest-mouthed politician in South Africa. Now he was the most silent. He was one of the primary causes of the recent disasters, yet he still sat in the Union Parliament.
General Hertzog. in reply, said he did not intend to repudiate the rebellion. It had been provoked by the Union expedition into German territory which had sheltered fugitive rebels after the Boer war.
TGenrral asked for a Select committee to enquire into the causes of the rebellion, and to ascertain whether it was due to German intrigue or whether the object was to restore independence.!
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15219, 5 March 1915, Page 8
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