SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION
DC WET'S RISCING.
KEPORT OF ROYAL COMMISSION.
CAPETOWN, February 22. The Commission of three Judges in a report i'h De Wet's rising, says that if was due to a lingering hope that a considerable section of the Transvaal and the. Orange Free State would favour the restoration of independence, De Wet thinking that Mr. Hertzog's ahtipachy for General Botha'gave him his opportunity though his; adherents: wei'e cot conspicuously anti-British. The evidence disclosed that De Wet' after a visit-to South-west Africa before the war stated: that the Germans were ;. quite ready and were expecting War in, . Europe. ;■ They Hhd' guns mannpd ;at , Bierfontein rfetdyj to invatle the Union and hml:70*000 'Mauser rifles. : Dociiments prove,that General De la Tiey,- immediatelv wai': broke out, bs£a""ritoplotva : ,risii\'T,-, • ,' : - "' ,
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Greymouth Evening Star, 24 February 1917, Page 5
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