Africa

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 79, 7 April 1915, Page 6

Africa

t ■ ■ i ■ ' • • | • PROGRESS OF UNION TROOPS IN GERMAN SOUTH-WEST,

(Received 1.40 p.m.) ■Capetown, April 6,

Offieial;.—LTnion '-troops have occupied Warmbad, tne southern capital of German South-West Africa.

A correspondent writing from Capetown on February 27 /said: “The sourthern force (Union) will cross the Orange by way of Submit Drift ami Ramon’s Drift, and the first place of any importance to be reached .is Warmbad, which i lies‘ about ‘2O lies north of the Orange River. This is a garrison town, jand to , reach it an invading force must'go through a narrow pass in’ the <’Makonotoxi Mountains, and on to Sandfonfein, a waterhole where the Union ftoce sustained a rather severe reverse in September last. This place! lias southward of the Nu-Uas Mountains, and west of the Twands Mountains* and is a particularly nasty piece of country from a military point of view. A little farther ahead lies another wateihole —Booifontein—and still ‘farther Almitzfontein. These are the only three waterholes between the Orange River and Warmbad. This latter place lies at the foot of the Elliott Mountains, and'from here onwards heavy fighting may he expected.