The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-26
BY FORTUNE OF WAR
DOM PAUL'S NEPHEW AND SECRE-
TARY IS IN SAVANNAH.
is C0MMANDANT E. R. DEWALL,
WHO WAS CAPTURED AT VAIL
RIVER AND SENT TO BERMUDAS.

Taken to Jamaica to Swear Allie
glance He Refused and Was I'm
prisOned-Is Now En- Route to
brussels to Meet Former Officers of
BOer Governmental Nephew of
JOubert and VIII Claim Share of
His Estnte-Says $25 zoo, 900 Missed
in johannesburg Is in Brussels,
That Cannon Are Buried In Trans
vaal and VIII BE Unearthed and
Used Again When Opportunity Of
fcrs-May Bring German Farmers
and BOer Settlers to the south.
Commandant Epte Rolf DeWall,
nephew of Dom Paul, president of the
former Transvaal Republic, whose pri-
vate secretary he was. and also a
nephew of Gen. Joubert, the Boer hero
of two wars with England, is in Sa-
vannah arranging for passage to Rot
terdam, whence he will go to Brussels
on important business.
The Boer visitor has been in this
country some time, having come to
Pensacola from Kingston, Jamaica,
to the British government, which he
refused to do, an act that caused him
to be kept under arrest for two weeks
on the charge of lese majestic. The COM
mandant was captured by Gen. Max
we'll at the Vail River fight, Jan. %,
that battle he would have been able
to escape, he says.
= After being captured he was sent
with number of other prisoners to
the Bermudas, and thence, after the
close of the war, to Kingston, where
he was requested to take the oath of
allegiance. Upon his refusal to do so
he was locked up until some of the
consuls on the island expressed the
view that his detention was unlawful
in that not being an English subject
originally he could not be made one
against his will.
Despite the fact that the war has
long since been over Commandant De-
Wall is as bitter against the English
as he was at the beginning of the con-
fiict, possibly more so, for then he was
a man of wealth and position; now he
says, $750,000 He does not consider
| himself hopeless however, nor does he
think the cause of his country lost
| forever.
The $25, 900 900 that was in Johannes
BURG the disappearance of which so
puzzled the English, is in Brussels, he
vs.. and the cannon that were used
| bytAhe Beers, but which disappeared
before the final surrender to the Eng
hsh forces are also in safety; buried
where they can be easily found by the
Boer patriots, and where they can be
used to best effect if wanted.
Let but England get into serious
! trouble with Russia, as is now threat
ened by the action of the latter coun-
| try in regard to the evacuation of
Manchuria, says the commandant, and
again the Boer forces may gather the
| cannon be unearthed, and another bit
ter and hard-fought war be waged for
fatherland and freedom.
Commandant DeWalI says he will &c
| to Holland first in order to see after
| his sister, the wife of Commandant
| Kranz, whose troubles caused her rc
| lose her reason. and who is now the
inmate of an asylum in Wilhemina's
realm. Then he will go to Brussels &c
| confer with the former officers of the
Transvaa1 government in regard tc
certain papers about which informa.
| ton that he alone can supply is need.
ed, and to which also his signature /.
| wanted.
He also expects materially to better
his fortunes on this trip as, he claims
he is entitled to part of the fortune
left by Gen. Joubert, the whole o.
which is now in the possession of Don
Paul. AS to his plans for the future
he is uncertain, but thinks he may in
terest himself in the immigration bust
ness, and expects to bring German
agriculturists to this country, especia:
| ly to the South. He may also brin.
some of the Boer sympathizers here
among them 1900 of the former resi-
dents of Natal Colony, who were ex
| lied to Bermuda because of their sym
pathy with the Boer republics.