IN THE OUTPOSTS OF THE EMPIRE.

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2258, 18 September 1914, Page 5

IN THE OUTPOSTS OF THE EMPIRE.

SOUTH AFRICAN DEFENCE < FORCES. (RESIGNATION OF COMMANDANTGENERAL . Cape Town, September 16. Brigadier-General C. I'. Beyers has resigned tho Commandant-Generalship of the Union Defence Forces. THE! BANDITS SURROUNDED. (Rec. September 18, 1.60 a.m.) Capo Town, September" 17. Mr. Botha and Mr. Smuts aro taking steps to counteract the misapprehension m the minds of a section of the Dutch population that there is some connection between General Be3'ers's resignation and General Delarey's" death. The Government accepted General Beyers's iesignation with legret a few hours before, and did not intend to appoint a successor at present. . The police nave since'surrounded the bandits at Reef Kopje; General Beyers served as a private in the South African war, and rose to be Assistant Commandant-Gen-eral of tho north district of the Trangvaal. It was he who captured the British camp at Novitgedacht. He was chairman of the Verecniging Peace Conference. Subsequently he was Speaker of the" Legislative Assembly of the Transvaal, and later CommandantGeneral of tho Unioii Defence Forces. CERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA TO BE INVADED. COMMENT IN BERLIN. (Rec. September 17, 8.50 p.m.) Cape Town, September 16. General Botha, speaking in tho Senate, stated that tho Government had decided to accede to the Imperial Government's request to oocupy certain parts of German South-West Africa, for strategical reasons. Amsterdam, September 16. The' "Berliner Tageblatt" remarks that the depths of the Boers' gratitude for Germany's sympathy during the South African War has evidenced in General Botha's statement that the Boers are standing solid with England against Germany.' ' INDIA'S SPLENDID RESPONSE. DEFRAYING WHOLE ,COST OF HER ■ EXPEDITION. ' (Rec. September 17, 5.10 p.m.) London, September 16. Both Houses, of Parliament passed a resolution empowering the Indian Government to defray the cost of dispatching troops out of her own revenue, thus complying with India's wish to assist the Empire.