they hunted for food and fought with, and of the implements they
used. According to the German newspaper from which we reproduce the
illustrations given here, they are the work of a German artist who has had
to go to the Front as a conscript and serve in the ranks of an infantry
battalion.




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30--THE ILLUSTRATED WAR NEWS, DEC. 30, 1914.--[Part 21]


[Illustration: AS LEFT BY THE TRAITOR, DE WET: THE UNION JACK THE REBEL
LEADER TORE AND TRAMPLED UPON AT WINBURG.]

De Wet committed his first open act of rebellion at Vrede, on October 28.
There, with a hastily raised commando at his heels, he forcibly seized the
place and, after submitting the local officials to brutal ill-treatment,
in a wild, incendiary speech called on the Dutch of South Africa to rise
in arms against the British Government. It was at Winburg that De Wet
performed, as it is stated, the theatrical and unworthy outrage of
trampling on and tearing the Union Jack. The identical flag which suffered
the maltreatment is shown in our photograph, in the state in which it was
after De Wet's puerile act of defiance had been committed. Reparation and
atonement are to come, as we shall learn when De Wet faces his
court-martial, probably at an early date.