OPERATIONS IN AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2264, 25 September 1914, Page 6

OPERATIONS IN AFRICA

GENERAL BOTHA TO COMMAND REPLACES GENERAL BEYERS , (Bee. September 24, 7.50 p.m.) Capo Town, September 23. The '■ Prime Minister, General Louis Botha; takes supreme command of the operations against German South-West Africa. ' (Rec. September 24, 10.15 p.m.) * / Cape Town, September 23. 'The''.'Rand Mail" describes General Botha's appointment as an answer to Genoral Beyers and his splenetic and sanctimonious ■ satellites. INVADERS IN EAST AFRICA. GERMANS REPULSED. (Rec. ; September 24) 7.50 p.m.) .' , ■> Nairobi] Sept-ember 23. , A German -force attacked a post twenty miles from the border, in the Voi district, arid was repulsed after sharp fighting for an hour, leaving eight dead. '■' . , 'The Voi River.is in British East Africa, and is-about 75 miles from the German frontier. The ; -military force in British East Africa in' 1913 consisted of 21 officers and .750 men of the 3rd. battalion of the King's African Rifles, and 13.officers and 400 men of the Ist battalion. There are 1735 police under 38 European officers and non-commis-sioned officers. The military and police force in German East Africa is given as 261 German and 2472 natives. (Rec; September 24, 7,35.p.m.) ■••■•!■ [' London, September 23. -A bluejacket on the Pegasus, describing the -operations-of that vessel at Dar-es-Sala'am/the port of German East Africa, some time ago, says: "We fired a broadside at'Dar-es-Salaam, and in five' minutes white flags were every r where'. The Germans blew up the wireless station,'sank a. gunboat across the month of the' harbour, and we captured three German mail' boats which were in port." / The sailor added that the Pegasus* had been searching for the Konigsburg. .- -