Africa.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 79, 2 August 1915, Page 5

Africa.

BRITISH PLUCK WINS. DETAILS OF PLUCKY STRUGGLE United Press Association. (Received 8.35 a.m.) Reuter’s gives details of a plucky struggle in the North Cameroons. Three Englishmen and thirty-six natives had a seven-hours fight with four hundred natives and sixteen German officers, with four Maxims. The British ococupied a mud fort, and lost two Englishmen early in the action. A third, J. Fitzpatrick, who was no soldier and did not know the Native troops, carried on the fight. The Germanas attacked on all sides, being sometimes within four hundred yards, and concentrated the Maxims on one wall. Our men had only rifles, but fought with splendid confidence. If a bullet passed through a loophole, they only wiped the dust out of their eyes and changed the damaged rifle lor another. Late in the afternoon nearly eight hundred other Germans approached, but apparently they were short of ammunition. Being unable to persuade the men to risk a bayonet charge, they retired after looting the village and murdering four villagers. The German casualties were three Europeans and thirty-three Natives killed, and four Europeans and twen-ty-eight Natives wounded. The British had four killed and eleven wounded.

HORRIBLE CRUELTY IN THE CAMEROONS.

Paris, July 31

The military correspondent with the French troops in the Cameroons declares that German officers openly connive at cannibalism. A man of the inhabitants of a fort in the Carnot region was eaten in the presence of Germans. The latter forced prisoners captured at Batour to walk 250 miles under a blazing sun, tied together with thongs through the flesh above the hips. They suffered indescribable agony.

THE CONQUERED COUNTRY.

Pretoria, July 31

Official: The surrender of tho Germans in Damaraland is completed, and the entire force is accounted for, except a handful of rebels from the Union.

Crowds lined the streets, and ten thousand people gave an ovation to General Botha at a meeting in the amphitheatre of the Union Building. Forty municipalities and public bodies and several natfTve tribes presented addresses.

General Botha, replying, referred to the fertility of the conquered territory. He intended that tens of thousands of the Union’s young people shall he settled on the land there. Bail ways already existed, and he could proceed with tho settling immediately.