SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2266, 28 September 1914, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN

BRITISH FORCE LANDS AT ENEMY'S PORT • (Rec. September 27, 5.5 p.m.) Capo Town, September 26. A Union force' has occupied Luderitc Bay unopposed. The German garrison retreated :blowing up the railway and destroying .the wireless station. , Luderitz Bay is one of the principal ports of German South-West Africa,. > and is the terminus of a railway run'■ning into the interior to Keetmanshoop. .GERMANS TAKE POLICE POST. (Rec. September 27, 10.30 a.m.) Protorla, September 25. Official.—Two hundred Germans captured the police post at "Rietfohtein, held by a ■ sub-inspector .grid. nine - men, who managed to escape;''.:.:';"" ; " ; _ Rietfontein' is on the border of Bri- .- tish Bechuanaland. and German.SouthWest Africa, and lies almost- due east of'Luderitz Bay, from which it is .nearly 500 miles distant. i''' ATTACK ON WALFISCH BAY. ' (Reo. September 27, 11.15 p.m.) Cape Town, September, 26. A'German patrol raided Walfisch" Bay. ■'. capturing a police sergeant. The patrol attempted to blow up the jetty. The Germans cleared all border police stations by daybreak rushes with hundreds against tiny garrisons apparently to prevent the watching of the defence movements on German territory. It is reported that the Germans who crossed the Orange River occupied the Catholic Mission at Pella unopposed. They are evidently trying to out communication between Steinkopf and Ramansdrift. Walfisch Bay is a small British territory lying in'the centre of the coast-line of German South-west Africa. It is under the control 1 of the Cape of Good Hope Government. Its area is 430 square miles, and the European population in 1911 totalled. 1638.