IN EAST AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2873, 11 September 1916, Page 5

IN EAST AFRICA

END OF CAMPAIGN IN SIGHT ! AnstraJiaa-New Zealand Cable Association. j (Rcc. September 10, 5.5 p.m.) • ; 'Johannesburg, Snptember P. In© East African campaign is likel.v to close in two months' time. General Smuts has'driven the enemy to the ' Bouth-enstern corner, consisting of un- i explored fevor-stricken country, where ' a further rotroat would ho disastrous. ',

BOTHA ON THE SITUATION. REINFORCEMENTS MUST GO. ("Tho Times.") (Rec. September 10, '5.5 p.m.) London, September 9. General Botha, speaking at Klerksdorp, said three-quartflrg of German East Africa was now British, including tho whole of. tho railways. ' _ Although the end of ( the war wan visible-, ife would ho necessary to send reinforcement*. He insisted that.the South African contingents in Franca must bo fully maintained till the war was properly finished.'; ' He was a man of peace, hut ha thought it would be better tn fight two years more than fight again in ton years. , ■ . .... ' GERMAN CRUELTIES. DEAD AND HOMELESS- VILLAGERS. ("Tie Times.") (R<"C. September 10, 5.5 p.m.) . London, September. p.. , An officer writes from East Africa describing the terrible Gorman cruelties. He arrived at a village through which' a German had led a detachment of Askans, who passed through an hour previously. The officer found heaps of dead and homeless villagers.. , A woman had a breast cut off., :