The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 14, 1916. SOUTH AFRICA'S PART.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 40, 14 September 1916, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER, 14, 1916. SOUTH AFRICA'S PART.

Though some of tho German forces are still at largo as fugitive wanderers, the conquest of German East Africa may now he regarded as accomplished. General Smuts has completed splendid work for the Empire and his colonial troops have proved themselves lino lighting men. There now passes finally out of the lianas of Germany the last remnant of great colonial possessions which had been acquired by every and any means at tho wish of German Wilhelm, to whom his colonies were exceedingly] precious and some assert almost as dear to him as the dream of a Ger-1 man Fleet that would one day wrest sea-supremacy from Britain. To-day tho sea is free of German ships, and the carefully built-up navy of von Tirpitz still skulks at Kiel. As to, the German colonies it will be re-, membered that Togoland surrendered soon after the outbreak of war;' Kiao-cb.au a few months later. German South-west Africa held out till July of last year; tho Cameroons till, last February. German East Africa,! the richest and the most promising l of all the German colonies, now com-, pletes the list. Principally owing to the difficult nature of the country, and the strength of the German forces and their preparedness for tliO| war its occupation has been no casyj task. At the beginning of the warj it was able not only to defend itself,: but to attack the neighboring British] colony, which was, for a time, in con-, s idem bio danger. r Lbo small British forces which were all that could bo spared were able to make no headway till after the suppression of the. South African revolt and the con-, quest of German South-west Africa, it was possible to send General Smuts with a South African force to do in the East what General Botha had done in the South-west. The loyally of South Africa’s great leaders and tho splendid support they have gained from Briton and Boer alike in prosecuting war against the’ disturber of the world’s peace, is a. great tribute to British rule, while at the same time South Africa has rendered service which the Motherland will never forget.