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Show (xen. Joubert' s Death Pretoria, March 28. General Joubert cied last rriprht at 11:30 o'clock. He had been suffering from a stomach complaint. com-plaint. The town is plung-ed Into mourning- for the true patriot, gallant Ktneral and upright and honorable gentleman. Cer.fr.il Pietrus Jacobus Joubert, commandant general of the Transvaal lorcefi. Letter known as Piet Joubert or iIiin Peter, was born about pixty-c.Kht pixty-c.Kht rears j-tpo. He was descended from an old French-Huguenot family, which ettid in South Africa many 5-ear.s ago. He was burn in Cape Colony, Col-ony, but was takon by his parents when 7 ye-ars old to the Orange Free State, vhorc he was taug-ht from early child-Jio;d child-Jio;d to ho.t etraig-ht and hate the J'.ritiFh. He is described as having been vuerlv fearless. Of schooling he had but little, and 3;e never paw a newspaper until he was is yx-crs old. In rpitc of this his ambition ambi-tion pi-ompted him to reo.d the few looks he could obtain, and ne succeeded succeed-ed in obtaining a fair knowledge of history his-tory and langruag-efi. In corseojenoe of the acquisition of Katsd bv the PrttJph. his family moved from Katal and seitled in the Transvaal. Trans-vaal. Soon afterward lie became a burgher of the South African republic end a darins fhter. it was claimed in his behalf that he could lead a body of men more successfully success-fully apainst hostile natives than any caher man in the Transvaal. He came to be so feared by the natives that the knowledge that he was at the head of ii punitive expedition usually resulted in their surrender. It was during: ihes wars -with the r.atives that Joubert became acquainted wiih Paul Krujrer. and the two men l-ecame bosom friends. He was elected vi-e pi-esideiit of t-he Traisvaal in 1S&6, !ef.-itel Sir George Col'.ey at Majuba l.ill in 3sl. and acted as president of the republic in ISNo-il, during Kruger'e tibHf nee in Europe. General Joubert v." r.lways in favor cf the use of force instead of diplomacy, .rd 1 're ."id on t Krurcr on several oeca-" oeca-" :,,n r-rcat ri't'ienltv in repressing Lin hot-headed oolleapuo.notably in 1S79, v.-hen Joub'Tt. with Krujrcr and Pretor-Jous, Pretor-Jous, tv os planning: the re belli -n to ove-ihru- British ruie in the Transvaal. The result was Majuba hill and the practical Independence of the Transvaal. Trans-vaal. It was Joubert who organized the crmy of the South African Republic later on, dividing the country into seventeen sev-enteen military de:iartments, and each cf those departments into smaller divisions, di-visions, with commandants, field cornets cor-nets and lieutenants of various ranks 6n charge. A coord ins to the general's plans, every man became a trained soldier without leaving his farm, 1-V.d had his couipment ready at hand. To such a i point of perfection was the system car ried that within forty-eig-ht hours after the present war was declared the Boer nation was under arms It was .al-M due to General Joubert, that the South African republics succeeded suc-ceeded in amassing' the immense stores of wj.r munitloiio and provisions which have steod them in much good stead ivvu.g the conflict now in progress. When the Jamc-jon raiders were locked lock-ed up in Pretoria jail, Joubert was rtronply in favor of their immediate execution. It was not until Joubert .nd Kruger had ben closeted together for a. wlule ni-ht that the more merciful merci-ful cou use's Krug-er prevailed. In f pite of th i-e characteristics, Joubert, n some occasions, showed considerable regard for the usages of civilization, When the Peers raided the British ter- ritory of Pechuanaland in 1SS4. Joubert vas probably the only prominent Boer who refused ti support the movement, -- - snd his opposnt-.on resulted in the with drawal of the Boers from the territory seized, as he threatened to resign un-le.-; he br.d his way, saying: "I positively refuse to hold office under un-der a rovernment that deliberately breaks its covenants, and we have made covenants with England." In November last it was reported that General Joubert had been killed in action, and later reports said he was dan serous iy wounded, and had to use j a cart in order to follow the operations in ihe field. The circumstances of the death of General Joubert are not given in the 4l;snateh. which recalls the fact that William Cox. a newspaper correspondent correspond-ent w ho was recently released from imprisonment im-prisonment at Pretoria, and who has arrived at Durban, aid General Joubert Jou-bert was apparently suspected of halfhearted half-hearted ness. and that his life would be in clapper at the hands cf the burghers if Pretoria was besieged. |