Africa

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 106, 28 September 1914, Page 8

Africa

THE BRITISH COLONIAL FORCE AT WORK. AN UNOPPOSED OCCUPATION. - Received 27, 5.15 p.m. Capetown, September 28. A Union force occupied Underitz Bay unopposed, the German garrison retreating, after blowing up the railway and destroying the wireless station. FRONTIER FIGHTING CONTINUES. Received 27, 11.15 p.m. Capetown, September "26. A German patrol raided Wallisch Pay, capturing the. police sergeant, who attempted to blow up the jetty. The Germans have cleared all the border police stations by daybreak rushes of hundreds against the tiny garrisons, apparently to prevent their watching the defence movements on German territory. It is reported that tile Germans vho crossed the Orange River occupies the Catholic Mission at Pella unopposed, evidently to try to cut off communication between Steinkopf and Itamausdrift.

(Walfish Bay is a British settlement on the western coast of Africa, a small red patch on the fringe of the map of | German South-west Africa.) j (The Orange River, one of the great rivers of Africa, is the boundary along its western length between German South-west Africa and the Cape of Good Hope. Pella and Steinkopf are just south of the river.)

GERMAN POtST SURRENDERS. Oipotown, Sciptcmibeir 25. It is officially announced that the German past at Soluiuclkimansburg, near the Zamibttsi, 'hart surrendered wMiout opposition to the ißlhodesian police, German residents and a comlmis'skMied officer liavo been conveyed 'to Livingstone.

POLICE! POST CAPTURED BY GERMANE

Received 27, 6.1E5 ip.im, Pretoria, Sefpteinoer 2(1. Official.—Two hundred Germans captured a. imlica -post at Kkftfoiitem, held bv a sub-inspector and nine men, who escaped. (Reetfontein is a mission station of British Recliuanaland, near the German frontier.)