SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 116, 18 January 1915, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN

S W AKOPIVi UN D OCC LPI ED. (Reed. 1.4. p.m.). PRETORIA, Jan. 18. Official. —I'hcs Union forces cuLlpied Swakcpmnnd ■ Two British were killed and cue wounded. (Swakcpmnnd is the chief port in German South-West Africa. U lies ; north cf Walflsh Bay (British), the only good port on the coast. Presum-i ably the town was not defended, for j the campaign in German S.W. Africa, is destined to be of a guerilla nature).! UNWILLING REBELS RELEASER, j GOVERNMENT TAKES IMPORTANT; STEPS. PRETORIA, Jan. 10. The Government has ordered these j members of the Defence Force whe | were unwilling rebels to be released 1 conditionally on being of good behaviour, but Parliament is to /decide the question of granting parden and legal consequences ol" (.wrongful action. The release applies to a large pro j portion of the force involved in Mar-' itz's rebellion. The court of inquiry found some palliation of those whom Maritz coerced. Deliberate rebels are to be I court-martialled. BACK FROM NEW GUINEA. i I (Reed. 4.30 p.mi.) SYDNEY, aJn. 17. Colonel Holmes, with the balance i of the first New Guinea Expeditionary \ Force recently replaced, has returned. They were warmly welcomed. Colonel j Holmes speaks highly of the productiveness o fthe territory, but says it is i not a white man's country in the wet j season. | COMPARATIVELY UNKNOWN LAND, VALUABLE EVEN NOW. SYDNEY, Jan. 17. Colonel Holmes-states that only the j fringe of the Carman islands has been explored. Very little is known cf the interior, which, is. inhabited by canni- ■ bals and savages. Most of the cocoanut plantations are in their infancy. Their present value is great, but in a few years it will be enormous. GERMAN TERRITORY/ OCCUPIED. (Reed. 10,5 a.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 18. Further particulars regarding the capture of Bougainville, show that it was carried cut without fighting by troop's from Rabaul. M. Dpllinger, the chief German official, hearing of the fail of Rabaul, disarmed the native police. On November 19th the Admiralty group were also occupied. BRITISH CRUISER WAITING. SHIP ORDERED TO LEAVE. (Reed. 9.20 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. The State Department has ordered a collier, manned by a German prise crew, to )e:ive Porto Rico or intern. There is a British cruiser waiting outside, so the Germans -will probably intern. The collier was formerly the British ship Farn, captured by the Karlsruhe in October. A VIRULENT TREASONMONGER. (Reed. 2.35 p.m.) OTTAWA. Jan. 15. M. Bourassa blamed the Dreadnought Trust and the British Yellow Press for the present war. The Canadians were really in the position cf other \metier-n stoves, except the negroes | led by their misters felly. Thf? might talk of suppressing German militarism but that would not eventuate until British naval ism was destroyed. Canada ought to keep clear cf wars not her own. The German yoke was no heavier than English. The whole press cf Canada denounces Bourssa as a treasonmonger, sug nesting that he has been bought by German money. j