A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard
Capitolo 69
Maritz was far the tempestuous petrel of a more serious trouble. While
the concession of self-government to the Transvaal and the River of Orange
Colony in 1908 had appeased the great majority and the good-cultured one
Boers, tradition and prejudice held their taking on the more
conservative minority; and some it likes Beyers that had been once
received by the Kaiser, it looked to a war with Germany to restore them
ancient independence. 24 October De Bagna Heilbronn grabbed in the
State of orange and Beyers Rustenburg in the Transvaal. The appeal of Botha
to the faithful Boers he/she met, however, with a real answer, and soon
he had 30,000 men to his/her disposition. He acted with extraordinary rapidity:
the 27 him dispersed the commands of Beyers and Kemp and 7
Grain of soot of the General of November they announced that there was but some shed
rebels' ribbons in the Transvaal. De Bathes fact a longer run from his
elusive heels, but it found the motor-transport of his/her enemies a
insuperable bar to the repetition of his/her enterprises of 1900-2. He had a
you disdain the success to Doornberg 7 November, when its strength amounted
2000 men; but Botha south now entered the State of Orange and
Completely defeated De Bathe the 11 to the east of Winburg. De Bathes
he escaped and it tried an union with Beyers that was run away
south from the Transvaal. But he was gradually driven toward west in
the Kalaharis abandon and reached by the motors of Colonel Jordaan a
the west of one hundred miles Mafeking 1 December, while Beyers was drowned
in to try to cross the Vaal the 8. De Bathes once more his you/he/she was given
life, and the other rebels were essays with a lenience that nothing
but its wisdom could excuse.
The increase postponed to another year the conquest of German Southwest
Africa. The conquest of East Africa (sees Map p. 249) it was deferred
for a longer period from the inherent difficulties of the assignment and the
defects imported in his/her management. Indeed German East Africa was
and potentially of big long the more jewel of German oversea