AFRICA.
BOTHA ROUTS BEYERS. REBELS HOTLY PURSUED. CAPETOWN, Oct. 28. General Botha has Touted Beyers' cemuiando, eapturing 80. A MUTINY QUELLED. Some of the several thousand of prisoners of war interned at Pieter-
maritzburg mutinied on Monday but the guards quelled it and captured the fugitives. EX-REPUBLICAN GENERAL STANDS BY GOVERNMENT. Received 12.5 a.m. CAPETOWN, Oct. 29. Major Brand, an ex-Republiean General in command of 1200 at Tcmpe Camp called up his commando and announced the rebellion. He recalled the Vereenging agreement whereto Beyers and De Wet were signatories and said however bitter the war they could not take arms against their own people. It was his holy duty to stand by Government. He offered a free pass to any member of his commando desiring to return home instead of proceeding to German South-East Africa. Only four applied.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12931, 30 October 1914, Page 5
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138AFRICA. Manawatu Times, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 12931, 30 October 1914, Page 5
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