THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA
GERMAN DEFENCES AT AUS
Cape Town, April 4. ine enemy's defences at Aus (captured by the Union fore as last week) were elaborate. The trenches are deep and well designed,, aad there is a fine telephonic system. The defences include gun emplacements, sunken mines, and entanglements. The Union troops will have a stiff task in covering the fifteen miles of sandy desert from Garub to Aus.
The wells have been poisoned with carbolic solution by the enemy, who posted a notice on one wel! indicating that the water was undriakable. The enemy depleted the stores and burned much material before evacuating Aus. . ■
A mule exploded a mine, and four mules were blown to fragments. The troops had a miraoulous escape, for the guti passed only a low iuclics from the mines.
The bodies of several Hottentots wero found hanged. .
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2428, 6 April 1915, Page 5
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144THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2428, 6 April 1915, Page 5
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