SOUTH-WEST AFRICA.
large supplies of arms and ammunition. LONDON, August 10. One of the last discoveries made by General Botha's troops in German South-West Africa was 27,000 rifles packed in cases, also parts of a large number of machine-guns and an enormous quantity of ammunition, which had been landed a few weeks before the outbreak of war. This point adds to De Wet's admission that he intended marching towards the German border to obtain ammunition.
they axe going to advance, and their one wish is to get out and fight tho Turk in the open. Mining and countermining, bombs, periscopes, periscope rifles, sang bags, barbed wire, and corrugated iron are our weapons of warfare, and we spend most of our time grovelling in saps or mines or crawling and croxiching in trenches trying to avoid tho wily sniper."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXV, Issue 8214, 11 August 1915, Page 6
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