Africa.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 62, 13 July 1915, Page 5

Africa.

GERMANY’S COLONIAL EMPIRE

Umtkd Press Association

Amsterdam, July 12

Tin* Kooli:i«clio Volks Zeitung says there is no need to exaggerate the importance of the enemy’s momentary success in South-west Africa. The paper says: We know our colonies are cut off from the Fatherland, and are only able to defend themselves with difficulty. Germany must be the victor in Europe, and then rebuild her colonial empire.

REMOVING USELESS MINES.

Pretoria. July 11

General Tlotha reports that a German mine detachment is removing mines laid to impede Botha’s advance. An elaborate system was laid across the defiles of Elifautenberg, but the field intelligence force rendered them harmless. They captured five Germans waiting to explode the mines when the massed Union troops were about to cross.