BOTHA'S TROOPS FACING THE DESERT

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2425, 1 April 1915, Page 5

BOTHA'S TROOPS FACING THE DESERT

A DIFFICULT CAMPAIGN Cape Town, March 31. The Germans in tlio Alls district of German West Africa, have ■dynamited' the railway. General Botha's troops are facinc a waterless desert, and each march has increased their difficulties. The enemy is well equipped, and probably more numerous than was supposed. REDOENINC THE MAP. TIOTHA'S CHEAT TASK. (Ree. March 31, 5.50 p.m.) London, .March -'10. A South African voliinleor writes:— "1 don't thin!; that people at Home realise thf* I ask we have before ns in ronouorins German South-Went Afriiis. It i& a va,M country, and the Oemiau

forces are pretty numerous, and well established inland in positions which they have been preparing for years. Ihey have a fine system of strategical railways, _ and a big supply of stores and munitions. _ "The rebellion in the Union was a wet squib' of course. It was engineered by the Germans and was the result of years of scheming, and it has brought home to the people of this country the importance of finally smashmi£ the Kaiser's Empire. "Among tho Dutch Transvaal hurdlers arriving here are manv who fought asramst.us. Yet they have willingly left their farms to help us to redden the map. They are the finest hodv of irregular horse in the world, and better equipped than were the Boers in tiieir war with us. " Bo ti l1 ?, holes to see the thing through boioro Christmas." COMMITTED FOR TRIAL. DE WET CHARGED WITH TREASON. (Reo. March 31, 9.55 p.m.) I Caps Town, March 31. De Wet has been committed for trial on a charge of treason. THE INDEMNITY BILL. Capa Town, March 30. In the Legislative Assembly the Indemnity Bill has been read a third time.