Africa
IN THE SOUTH WEST, i
MARAUDINC OPERATIONS OF THE ENEMY.
Times and Sydney Sun Sebvioes. (Received 8 a.m.) London, September 24. Germans penetrated Damaraland, poisoning waterholes,- shooting stock, and commandeering provisions. They ordered the farmers to take up arms. (Damaraland. —Port of German South-West Africa, where the principal industry is cattle-rearing. Its only port, Walsfisch Pay, is British).
GENERAL BOTHA IN COMMAND AGAINST THE CERMANS.
[United Press iAssociation.] Capetown, September 23
General Botha takes supreme com--11 and of the operations against Gorman South-West Africa. The Rand Mail describes General Botha's appointment as. an answer to General Beyers and his splenetic and sanctimonious satellites.
SHARP FIGHTING FOR AN HOUR.
Nairobi, September 23
A German force which attacked a post 20 miles from the herder in the Voi district, was repulsed after sharp fighting for an hour, leaving eight dead.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 33, 25 September 1914, Page 5
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139Africa Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 33, 25 September 1914, Page 5
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