GENERAL HERTZOG

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 106, 31 October 1914, Page 7

GENERAL HERTZOG

ACTS THE PART OF PEACEMAKER LONDON, 30th October. Reuters Capetown correspondent states that General Hortzog is endeavouring to meet the rebel leaders and persuade them to return to their homes. A message from Bloemfonten reports that although there have beeu a few specific acts of armed resistance in the northern part of Orangia, there has been no bloodshed. TWENTY-FOUR OF MARITZ'S MEN SURRENDER. CAPETOWN. 30th October. Twenty-four of the Maritz rebels surrendered to Colonel Vanderventer at Band Vlei. [Brand Vlei is 270 miles north-north-east of Capetown and 140 miles south of the south eastern angle of German SouthWest Africa.] MORE SURRENDERS WITHOUT FIGHTING. The Prime Minister has received the following message from the High Commissioner in London, under date of 30th October :-— » Official. — One hundred African rebels surrendered without fighting, including officers. The capture of one hundred and twenty others is expected at Onderste Dooms, twenty-five miles north of Brand Vlei. REMARKABLE INTERVIEW REBELLION WELL CONSIDERED BOERS WELL-EQUIPPED BY GERMANY. (Received October 31, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, 30lh October. The South African correspondent of the Evening Standard states that the rebellion was well considered is proved by a remaikable interview wliich recently appeared in the New York Globe with a former field comet in the Boer army named Thipdemann. who told a, reporter that the revolt had been planned iov yearn Thousands of Boers who sot. L tied jn the German colonies after the

war cherished the idea, of redeeming their country. Many ex-leaders all over the globe were keeping in touch with each other in readiness for such an eventuality. Thiedemann produced a letter form a. Boer leader, dated 20th September, containing this passage : " Botha does not answer me. I think it a shame that the Boers do not jump in and clean up the English now there are such splendid chances. I am doing all I can to stir up sentiment." Thiedemann had letters from Maritz telling what the Boers contemplated. Maritz said that the rebels were thoroughly equipped with tho most modern German arms sent through German East Africa. They had endless quantities of arms and ammunition and the latest -and most improved field artillery and machine guns."