CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2361, 18 January 1915, Page 5

CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH AFRICA

UNION FORCES OCCUPY SWAKOPMttND Pretoria, January 18.- s . Official.—"The Union forces have OOV oupied Swakopmund, 'Two of the Bnt< ish were killed and one wounded.' • • Swakopmund is one of.the colonial' stations in German South-West Africa, and is situated on tfce coast, just north of Walfisoh Bay, which belongs toCapa. Colony. A new harbour, was recently, ' constructed at Swakopmund. A railway, line of 237 miles connects the tiort wit» the capital, Windhoek (in the interior); and there are, of course, telegraph and telephone oommUiiications. The sol«i means of coinniunfcation which the trerman South-TVest African ~ Prpteptorate. has with European countries r (exclusiveif of wireless, of coUrse) ( is by means,ofi the Capo and Mossomedes cable, whioWJ touches at Swakopmund. . ... J "UNWILLING REBELS." ACT OF GRACE BY "THE UNION. ■ -(Roc: January 17, 2.10 p.m.) Pretoria* January 16. ' The Union Government has ordered those members of the Citizens' Defenoß Force who wore unwilling rebels -to bi released conditionally! on ,*«? 8*f■ Jj haViour, 'but Parliament, it is pointed out, has to decide the question of grant* inn pardon for'tbo legal consequences o£| their wrpng aotion. ■-■■■■, • i This release applies to a large pro-j portion of the force invoked m wlrarf Maritz's rebellion. The Court of IM nuiry found that there was some pallia* tion for those whom Mantz had■ cowwdJ "The deliberate rebels"- will be eourWjniartialled. i'- '