THE SOUTH AFRICANS.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2499, 9 November 1914, Page 2

THE SOUTH AFRICANS.

HAVING A BUSY TIME OF IT,

Pretoria, November 7. Ihe rebels looted Harrismith and others blew up a bridge on the Sand river, Verginia. De Wet destroyed the railway lino in tfie neighbourhood ol Liudley.

Capetown, November 7 A lerce of police under Colonel Mertz had a sharp fight with the rebels under General Muller at Uronkhorspruit. Four rebels were killed and 58 captured, together with all transport and spare ammunition, iho Unionists' loss was one killed and three wounded.

De Wet, referring to "the miserable pestilential English," added that King Edward promised to protect the Africanders aud failed. General Smuts, sneaking at Durban, said tho rebellion was fizzling out, Mantz' invasion was nipped in the bud, and in tho Transvaal the rebel movement was insignificant. • It had only assumed certain dimensions in Northern Orangia. It is reported that the ton Labour leaders who were deported to England last year have returned unconditionally but promised not to embarrass tne Government during the war. General Swarts engaged a rebel commando on Thursday near Bloemhot.

Reviewing the Motor Transport | Corps at Johamieshnrg, General Smuts emphasised the daimer of having a neighbour such as the German iM.ipire, and said all loyal South Africans would certainly do their best to sec that tho proximity was not eonti nncd long. The rebels asked them to exchange a free constitution, which Do Wet and others helped to frame, or a republic under the Prussian heel, in accordance with the MarHfe treaty, but tho vast majority of the l'-oplo aro satisfied with the present <ond it ions, and were prepared to give her lives U, safeguard liberties for themselves and their children