SOME OF DE WET'S DOINGS.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 116, 13 November 1900, Page 6

SOME OF DE WET'S DOINGS.

A correspondent of the Cape Argus, writing from Johannesburg under date 10th September, says : — A Potchcfstroom resident with whom, I have had an intervieAV, states that General De Wet arrived at Potchefstroom en route for the Orange River Colony three weeks ago with a following of only eight men, He «ms welcomed with delight by tho Dutch' inhabitants, and was photographed. Ho said ho was pleased to soe c\tch an Afrikander ipirit among them. Next morning ho Qddrdssed thorn from tho front of tho Court house. Ho exhorted thorn to hoop up their confictanos, and not to bilim half they heard about Dutch losses. They would continue fighting, ho said, though only ten men were left, and he would be one. of them. It Avas, he .continued, impossible to know whom to trust, and he mistrusted his oavh coat. Speaking of the oath of neutrality, General De Wet said the Transvaal Government had issued a proclamation freeing them from responsibility, and thcy^must come forward Avillingly, and not AfSit to' be commandeered! He gave all praise to Louis Botha, in his successes. General Do Wet left the same afternoon, and rejoined his men, AA'ho were supposed to number 200.