Africa.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 75, 28 July 1915, Page 5

Africa.

<d"~ — -'•■• ■ LOSS OF SHEEP DIP! i STRIKING ACCOUNT OF FAILURE OF CERMAN METHODS. United Prkns Association. ('Received 9.10 a.m.) ~ Capetown, July 27. Colonel l)e Waal, of General Botha's stall', speaking at Stellenbascb, sai~ the Germans laid six thousand mines in Damaralantl, and the Union forces only lost nine men thereby, whereas twenty-one G'ermaiis were killed. The Germans used more sheep-dip pyisoning the wells than would suffice lor all the sheep in South Africa, and no Union soldier was killed thereby.