SOUTH AFRICA.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13621, 9 November 1914, Page 6

SOUTH AFRICA.

I I>K WET IN BOASTFUL MOOS.

; Capetown, Nov. 6. E-e Wet, with 150 armed horsemen, rikied Vrede on October 28th. A postal clerk, at much risk, warned the postmaster, who wired Pretoria before t«is> raiders smashed the- instruments. ■ /s>o Wet seized the Tvlagistrate, who had .■formerly iined him £2 Jor whipping a native, and dragged him-into a public place,'where the inhabitants -were or-, tiered to muster. : *)© Wet addressed the meeting, andfi^.id ho proposed to join Maritz, and to march on Pretoria to pull down the British flag and proclaim a South African republic. (Received Nov. 7, 3.20 p.m.) Capetown, Nov. 6. Be Wet, iv referring to "the miierahle and pestilential English/ added that King Edward promised to protect Africanders, but failed to do"so.