SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2529, 2 August 1915, Page 5

SOUTH-WEST AFRICA

GENERAL BOTHA.S INTENTIONS By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Rec. 'August 1, 3.40 p.m.) Pretoria, July 31. ; Official.—The surrender. of tho Germans in Damaraland has been completed. The entire forco has been accounted for except a- handful of rebels from the "Union. Crowds lined the streets and ten thou- • sand ovationed General Botha at a meeting in the Amphitheatre of the Union Building. Ffcrty municipalities and publie bodies and several native tribes presented addresses. General Botha, replying, referred to the fertility or the conquered territory, and said he intended that tens of thousands.of the Union's young people should bo settled on tho laud there. Railways already existed, and they could proceed to the settling immediately. POISONINC THE WELLS. ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) (Rec. July 31, 7.30 p.m.) London, July 30. The Bureau publishes the facsimile of an intercepted Germau message ■to • South-West Africa ordering tho contaminationl of the waters of tiie Ida. Mine.-. IN THE CAMEROONS j GERMANS 'AND CANNIBALS, (Itec. August 1. 3.40 p.m.) _ Paris, July. 3IV The military correspondent with the French. troops in the Cameroons declares that, tho German officers openly, connive at cannibalism. Many of .the inhabitants in the Fort Carnot region were eaten in the presence of the Germans. The latter forced prisoners captured at Batour to walk 250 miles xa the blazing sun, tied together, with thongs through the flesh above the hips. They suffered indescribable agony. RECRUITING IN SOUTH AFRICA. Johannesburg, July 30. Applications for enrolment in tho Ex« • t peditionary Force are steadily coming in from all parts.