SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14462, 28 November 1914, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN REBELLION.

SOME BRISK ENGAGEMENTS. Received November .28, 9.45 a.m. PRETORIA, November 27. Official.—Tho rebels have made numerousjunsuccessfurattempts to derail armoured trains on the Reitz-Frankfort line. There have been brisk engagements, and a number of rebels have been killed or wounded. Of Do Wet’s three generals, only Rantenbach remains. Rocco De Villiers surrendered, and Nieolass Serfoutein was wounded.

BRITAIN’S HOME DEFENCE.

A MILLION DRILLING. LONDON, Novemoer 28 .The announcement was made at Hie Guildhall meeting for the promotion of home defence that nearly a million who were ineligible for the front, were gi vmg. up their spare time to drill.—Tim is and Sydney Sun Services.

THE SYDNEY-EMDEN FIGHT.

. GERMAN CAPTAIN’S ACCOUNT. ■ l ,, November 28, 8.45 a.m. AMSTERDAM, November 27. Captain von Muller, of the Emden, has cabled to Berlin: “Our marksmanship at first was good, but soon the Sydney’s heavy gups gained the upper hand, inflicting heavy losses. We were shorjijOf ammunition, and were obliged to , cease firing. Though our steering gear was damaged, wo tried to get witliin torpedo range, but failed. Our funnels were destroyed, greatly influencing our speed, and therefore we fullspeeded on to a reef. Six officers, four warrant officers, and 93 men were killed. One non-commispion ed officer and seven men were seriously wounded.”

DISRAELI’S REMARKABLE PROPHECIES.

LONDON. November 27. Murray’s have published the third, volume of Disraeli’s life, and quote his remarkable prophecies. Disraeli told Cobden in 1848 that it was madness to .mc - , universal peace because of the fact that America and England were rich and contented. Wars w r ere not made by such Powers, but by a race or, prince who - agitates for position. Disraeli, with rare prescience, when the Schleswig dispute was beginning in 1848, brushed aside the ostensible pretexts for Prussia’s action, and pointed out that it meant an eventual challenge to England upon the sea. Ho further predicted that the intellectual march of atheism may lead to a revival of national idolatries, modified mythically, and dressed up according to the spirit of the age. This finds fulfilment in Nietsche’s Germany.—(Times and Sydney Sun Services.) ■ MISCELLANEOUS CABLES. THE MAORI CONTINGENT. LONDON, November 26. In the House of Commons, Mr Tennant, when interrogated,' Stated that there is no intention at present of sending the Maoris to East Africa.. ; fie was not aware whether they had yet left New Zealand.—Times and Sidney' Sun 'Services.'