The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1914-11-04
some BOERS REBEL
Union OF SOUTH AFRICA FACES
SERIOUS DlSAfFECTIQN
CAUSES ARE Discussed
Letters Received in New York Lend
New Importance to Rebellion Of
Former Boer Leader-British Gov
ernment Announces Tictory-Lon-
don Press View Trouble Seriously.

The following official statement
| was issued Wednesday night regard.
ing the Union of South Africa rebel.
lion:
General Botha reports that he
left Rustenburg "a district in the
west part Of the TransYaal colony)
Tuesday and proceeded in the direc.
ton in which General Christian
Beyers, with his command, was sup.
posed to be- He came in touch with
General Beyers' men in the forenoon
and drove them in headlong rout the
whole of the day and captured so.
"In fighting near the end Of the
pursuit, one of General Botha's men
and several of Beyers' command we're
wounded.
"When the report was made the
pursuit was still in progress"
All the English newspapers regard
the rebellion as very serious, though
it is the general opinion that while
Generals Botha and SHUTS and Mr.
Steyn, formerly president, side with
Great Britain, it will be speedily
crushed.
According to the New York Herald,
based upon letters from Americans in
johannesburg, the mysterious kill
ing, III August, O; General Jacobus
Eendrick ds L. Rey. ono OF the Boer
heroes OF the war Of 1S99.i903, is re-
sponsible almost entirely for the in
surrection led hy General Christian
De Wet. ..
According to the belief OF almost
all the Beers in South Africa, General
de Ia Rey was not killed by bandits,
as the censored dispatches from Jo-
hannesbnrg instead at the time, but
by British agents, who wrongly sus-
pected the patriarchal Boer Of dis
loyalty.
In confirmation OF the disquieting
news brought by the South African
letters are the censored dispatches
which announced the killing Of Gen
eral de Ia Rey and the dispatches
whish come from London. These dis
patches Announced that General De
Vets chief aid in the reBellious
movement is Rrigadier General Chris
tian Frederick Beyers. General Bey-
ers, it is stated in the dispatches an
nouncing the killing ef General de Ia
Rey. was riding in the automobile
with de Ia Rey when the aged pa
triot was shot: this is admitted by
the police. but assertedly through an
accident.
Now it turns out, according to the
new information which has reached
here, the official explanation of how
the killing OF de la Rey occurred was
that de la iey was riding with Gen.
Peyers iii an automobile which re-
senbled one that was being used by
bahfits the police were pursuing.
Among the coi6iiists; however, the
letters assert, the belief has become
universal that de Ia Rey was slain be-
cause he had fatty. refued to join a
movement intended to organize an
expeditionary force Of troops Of the
Union of South Africa against the
African possessions Of Germany.
In this attitude Gen. de Ia Rey is
declared to have had the support OF
Gen. Beyers, and the letters assert
the man now aiding Gen. De Wet
also was marked for assassination
Gen Beyers, as was announced in the
DISPATCHES which told .Gf TIE killing OF
de Ia Rey, had that day resigned his
position as commander in chief OF the
defence forces Of the Union Of South
Africa.
Under De Wet. it was admitted on
every hand, the rebellion against the
British rule has more chance of sue
cess than under any other leader the
colonists might have chosen. His
first move is directly in line with the
| bewildering methods he employed tc
harass the British troops in the last
war. Armed rebellious commanders
seized the town Of Heilbron, in the
northern part of the Orange River
colony; and the government officials
| were taken prisoners. Heilbron is
the old home of Gen. De Wet. He
was farmer there and he went out
from Heilbrof as private with the
Orange Free State forces In the Boel
war
Until dispatches proved that Gen
| De Wet was at the head Of the re
bellion We were inclined to the belle
that the seriousness of the trouble II
| the South South African colonies wa;
oYerestimated, said the export man
ager Of one of the largest machiner.
exporting firms in this country, which
has branch offices in practically ever.
important town in the affected Soutl
African district.
with the presence of De Wet
however, the situation is entirely oil
ferent. He is perhaps the most pop
ular man in the whole country. HI
popularity is so great that it seem
impossible to believe that crushing
rebellion he is leading is easy OF ac
complishment. He has about ooo'
1000 colonists to draw from. and M
i.-.aoo1 ovpar;onopc in the cOuQtr