SOOTH AFRICA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 15 October 1914, Page 5

SOOTH AFRICA.

THE REBELLIOUS COLONEL.

HOLDS RANK OF GERMAN

GENERAL.

HIS AGREEMENT WITH THE

ENEMY.

DRASTIC REPRESSIVE MEASURES'

TAKEN

CAPETOWN, Oct. 14.

Since General Beyers resigned there had been indications that' something" was wrong in the north-west with the Cape forces under Colonel Maritz } and the Government despatched Colonel Brits to supersede Colonel Maritz. In reply to Colonel Brits' message to report himself, Maritz answered. "I report to no one." Colonel Brits therefore sent Major Boruver to take over the command. On arrival at Colonel Maritz's camp, Major Boruver and his party were made prisoners. Boruver was subsequently released, and returned with an ultimatum from Colonel Maritz to the Union Government, stating that unless he were given a guarantee before ten o'clock on Sunday morning that the Government would consent to Generals Hertzog, De Wet, Beyers, Kemp, and Muller meeting him, so that he could take their instructions, he would immediately attack Colonel Brits' force. !'-. • Major Boruven reported that Colonel

Maritz possessed German guns, and holds the rank of a German General and commander of the German forces. Colonel Maritz arrested all the officers (ten) who were unwilling to join the Germans, and sent them to German South-west Africa.

Major Boruven saw the agreement between Colonel Maritz and the Governor of South-west Africa, guaranteeing the Union's independence, ceding Walfisch Bay and other places to the Germans, and undertaking that German's would only invade the Union at Colonel Maritz's request.

Maritz has boasted of the possession of large supplies of war munitions and money obtained from the Germans, and that he would over-run the whole of South Africa.

The "Government is taking drastic steps to quell the rebellion. LONDON Oct 14. The Daily Telegraph's. Johannesburg correspondent .cables that the Namaqualand surrender was due to the treachery of Colonel Maritz's accom. plice. (The cablegram refers to the report of Renter's correspondent with the Namaqualand expedition, that on October Ist the advance guard of two squadrons of the South African Mounted Rifles and a section of the Transvaal Artillery was attacked by 2000 Germans with 10 gims. The fight was continued the following morning and every Transvaal gunner was killed or wounded. By noon the British ammunition was exhausted; thft p&ity destroyed the guns while the riflemen kept down the enemy's fife. The British then hoisted the white flag.) ■

CAPETOWN, Oct. 14. Messrs Cresswell and Madely, M.P.s have offered to serve with the forces