MARITZ ON TRIAL
AN ECHO OF 1914 IN SOUTH
AFRICA.
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CAPETOWN, 22nd January. The preliminary inquiry has commenced in the Magistrate's Court of a charge of high treason against Commandant Maritz, leader of the rebellion in 1914. General Brits, who commanded the forces which fought and defeated Mar-' itz> gave evidence. He said that Maritz, prior to the fighting, wrote urging him as an old comrade in arms to join the rebellion, and enclosing a copy of a treaty between Maritz and the Governor of German West Africa on beha'f- of the Kaiser. The treaty provided that the^'Kaiser would assist Maritz in the war against the English to obtain the independence of Dutch South Africa, the Kaiser not objecting to' the new State annexing Portuguese Delagoa Bay. >
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 5
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132MARITZ ON TRIAL Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 20, 24 January 1924, Page 5
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