THE SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13635, 25 November 1914, Page 5

THE SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION.

DE WET ACROSS THE VAAL

COMMANDO BEATEN AND

SCATTERED.

Pretoria, Nov. 23

De Wet, with others, crossed the Vaal river on Sunday night after the remnants 61 the commando had been beaten back.

Commandant Dutoil and Field-Cornet Hoffman, in a motor car, overtook fugitives near Leeugoorn. One named Spis, De Wet's adjutant surrendered, but the others continued fti.e\r flight, firing revolvers, and scattered across the veldt.

Commandant Dutoil's party -wounded and captured Mentz, De Wet's son-in-law. The remainder escaped.