REBELS RELEASED.
CLEMENCY IN SOUTH AFBICA.
DUTCH CONTRAST WITH GERMAN METHODS.
(Received December 23, 8.5 a.m.) JOHANNESBURG, December 22.
The release of the rebels followed on the payment of their fines and their signature to a pledge to abstain from political agitation. The rebels are gratified, and regard the clemency as a practical Christmas box.
AMSTERDAM, December 22.
The newspapers comment on the magnanimity shown towards De Wet, and contrast it with German methods, where a bullet would probably have been his fate. , %
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 584, 23 December 1915, Page 8
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