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Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 December 1915, Page 3

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(Received This Day D a.m.) GERMAN EAST AFRICA. Capetown, Dec. 7. General Smuts stated 111 the Assembly that recruiting was successful beyond their highest expectations Anu would enable the Union to dispat'Jli the necessary forces to East Africa, and also reinforcements. Ho hoped the campaign would commence soon, and result similarly to the campaign ir. South-west Africa. It was estimated that £6,000,000 per annum would cover the entire cost of the ,contingents. ■ General Hertzog deprecated the expenditure on the East African campain. He declared that tfouth Africa wanted, not war, bu/t peace.

General Botha reiterated that they were bound to fight in order to maintain their liberty. It was absolutely impossible to remain neutral. -'"He added that had real civil war broken out. the man responsible would have been General Hertzog, who 'was a rebel at heart. Of course there was 110 question of annexing German East Africa, though the Union doubtless would bo consulted anent its ultimate disposal. (Cheers).

The House endorsed the Government's proposal without a division. (Received This Day 8.45 a.m.) THE DISTURBANCES IN CHINA. Pekin, Dec. 7. The loyal warships oombarded uio Chaoho making holes in her and igniting the bridge. The rebel leaders escaped. The casualties were tour killed an'l five wounded. Disturbances in the suburbs of Shanghai have 'Been suppressed) and the rising ended in a fiasco. THE GERMANS IN TURKEY. Geneva, Jan. I. The Journal de Geneve states that the Germans planned the great elfori by the Turks in Mesopotamia, and that the are undoubtedly counecfaedi wi|th the Pejrsian developments. The railways in Anatolia are exclusively used for war transport. The Germans fear a British landing at Adana from whence Von tier Goltz communications are specially vulnerable. Although the Hermans ostensibly threaten to attack in Egypt, it is moro probable'that they will devote the winl ter to an attempt to reach the Persian Gulf via Baghdad, but the Sinai railway is completed to Havir, sixty miles from the Suez" Canal.