Africa.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 73, 29 March 1915, Page 5

Africa.

WAR IN THE JUNGLE.

RHINOCEROS RESENTS ADVENT OF THE MOTOR.

CAR UPSET : : SOLDIERS KILLED.

Times and Sydney Sdn Service (Received 8 a.m.)

London, March 27

During tlie lighting in East Africa. Native troops under British officers were being transported in motor cars during the night to cut off the Germans, when a rhinoceros charged one car, but missed. Then it charged the next car, which it overturned, and killed the soldiers. It took fifty men to overcome the animal.

NEW TERRITORY OF TOCOLAND,

Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, March 27. The Colonial Office announces that Togoland, having been under military occupation since August 26, has become “territory in friendly occupation” within the meaning of the proclamation concerning occupied territory.

(Togoland lies between the Gold Coast Colony on the west and Dahomey on the east; proclaimed a protectorate in 1884. It is the smallest of German colonies, hut the only one which exists without State aid. It includes little Popo and Porto Seguro, and is administered hy an Imperial Governor, assisted by a Government Council. The coast-line is only 32 miles long, but inland the protectorate widens considerably, The climate of Togoland is bad, malaria and other fever being rife,, but towards the hinterland the atmosphere becomes drier and cooler. 'Area 33,660 square miles; population, 1,500,000, of whom 363 are Europeans. The capital is Lome, hut Togo is the chief native town, and has 5000 inhabitants. Revenue and expenditure, 1913, £202,855. Imports, 1912, 571,392; exports, 1912, £497,945. Chief exports, palm oil, gum, and ivory. Cotton is being grown with very satisfactory results. A railway has been built connecting Lome with Little Popo, and has been joined by a line from Lome to Palime).

MISCELLANEOUS.

United Peebb Association. Johannesburg, March 26

The preliminary examination of Kemp, Vannensburg, and forty-six others for treason has opened. Most of the accused were wearing German uniforms.

A witness named Vannesburg identified a number of the accused as participants in a fight at Upington on January 23rd, and detailed the movements of the rebel commando wh,ic|i entered German territory, where it was equipped with rifles and Gorman uniforms .