CASE OF MARITZ
TREATY WITH GERMANY. PRELIMINARY INQUIRY. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. ' (Received January 23, 5.5 p.m.) , CAPETOWN, January 22. 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 Britz, who commanded the forces which fought and defeated Maritz, gave evidence. He said that Maritz, prior to the fighting, jwrote urging him os an old comrade m arms to join the rebellion, and enclosing a copy of a treaty between Maritz and the Governor of German West Africa on behalf 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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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11735, 24 January 1924, Page 6
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135CASE OF MARITZ New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11735, 24 January 1924, Page 6
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