Africa.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 58, 8 July 1915, Page 5

Africa.

BOTHA’S DIFFICULTIES. GERMANY DESIRED AFRICA. United Press Association. (Received 9.35 a.m.) Capetown, July 7. Before reaching Otavi, many of General Botha’s Free State forces marched at night forty miles over waterless tracks, and then engaged in a running light over several miles of thorn-bush country. The Germans used the cover of the bushes through--out the retirement. The Union forces were often within a few yards of them, but exhaustion, owing to the density of the bush, for the present obliged them to suspend pursuit. ;

Colonel Krog, a burgher commandant, declares that evidence discovered in the campaign proves conclusively that Germany made complete preparations to conquer Soutli Africa.

OFFER OF HEAVY BATTERIES AND CONTINGENT ACCEPTED. (Received 9.5 a.m.) Pretoria, July 7. Official—The Imperial Government has gratefully accepted the Union’s offer of some heavy batteries and an Imperial Contingent.

HOIST WITH THEIR OWN PETARD. (Received 9.45 a.m.) London, July 7. A Rhodesian trooper in a letter states that Germans planted mines all over the resert and a German newspaper declared that General Botha’s road to Windhoek would he a sea of blood. Actually the mines killed sixty-one Germans and killed or wounded live British.