Africa

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 94, 16 September 1914, Page 5

Africa

- - RAIDERS IN RHODESIA. GERMAN ATTACKERS DRIVEN ACROSS THE BORDER. Received 10, 1.10 a.m. Capetown, Sept. 15 (morning). The Germans attacked Abercom, near Lake Tanganyika, on September 5, but were repulsed by Maxima. They rehewed the attack on the Bth, with field guns. Finally Lieut. McCarthy and 00 men, by a forced night maiMi with a Maxim, drove the Germans over the border with considerable loss. The British sustained two casualties. (Abercom is in Northern Rhodesia, near the German East African frontier.) LOYALTY OF llEtt h'MTESMIiN. GENERAL DE LA KEY PREFERS THE UNION JACK. ARRANGEMENTS FOR CONTINUING TRADE.

By cable. —Press Association. —Copyright Caipetown, Sept. 14. Mr Smuts, in the Ansensbly, referring to the food supply, said the Government would be guaranteed against war risks on all shipments from Canada end Australia. The arrangement had ■worked most satisfactorily. Referring to the exportation of wool, mohair, skins and hides, exceeding S'/a millions sterling in mine, the msvrketa for whiea had disappeared await in;? normal conditions, the Government had arranged that the stud' should bo valued at the chief ports and the bank? issue certificates to the extent of 30 per cent, of (he value against 'the Government's guarantee. The Assembly and the Senate adopted (lie address thanking the King for his j message. General Botha's statement | in the Senate was mors emphatic am! cneompromising than in the Asscmhl General de la R«jr, whose previous attitude had been much commented on, praised the British flag as preferable to any and said tluit if the Germans ini vailed the Union they would 1 got as hot : a reception as ever they desired. { M,r Whiteside (Labor) in the Senate, admitted that General Botha's speech had converted him ob to the necessity of supporting the Goverjroicat's policy.