SOUTH AFRICA.
BOTHA'S NARROW ESCAPE. ROADS WELT. MINED. Received August 15, 4 p.m. London, August 14. An officer who was in the South-west African campaign says that at one place there were ten mines across a roadway eight feet wide, and three more on the railway line, which would have killed everyone within a hundred yards. General Botha was nearly killed by the explosion of a mine, which killed one of his attendants.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1915, Page 5
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73SOUTH AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, 16 August 1915, Page 5
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