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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 163, 10 July 1915, Page 5

SURRENDERED.

GERMAN SOUTH WEST AFRICA

KITCHENER'S APPEAL FOR iEN HINT OF COMPULSORY SERVICE HARD FIGHTING IN GALUPOLI STORY QF THE ALLIES' ADVANCE

The invasion of German South-west Africa by the South African Forces, under the leadership of General Botha, has been carried to a successful conclusion, the whole German force having surrendered. Hostilities in this area have now ceased. Earl Kitchener has made a stirring appeal to Britain's manhood to assist in the time of great need. He refers in terms of the warmest enthusiasm to the deeds of the Empire overseas, and proceeds that the three needs now are men, munitions, and money. The peril is as great now, he says, as it was ten months ago, and he again reminds Britain that the struggle will be a long and costly one. He foreshadows the adoption of compulsory service among men of fighting age not wanted in the munition factories, the unmarried being taken first. The check inflicted upon the Austrians by the Russians at Krasnik was of great importance, and had the effect of breaking up the whole Austro-German pursuit of the Czar's army. The Austrians, believing that the retreat was a rout, advanced too fast, got out of touch with General yon Mackensen's force, and were taken in the flank by the Russians, being bad'y cut up and compelled to retreat. The Allies' warships have been maintaining an intense bombardment of the Turkish positions on the Gallipoli Peninsula, while the Anglo-French forces have almost surrounded Krithia. Enver Pasha's latest attempt to dislodge the Australians not only failed, but ended in his own forces being com--1 pelled to retreat. The fighting north of Arras has been of the most sanguinary character, the rival troops fighting witb knives, automatic pistols, and hand grenades. The Germans have burrowed into the earth, and the French have gone after them, fighting them by flare and torchlight sixty feet below the surface.

GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA OCCUPIED.

ENTIRE FORCE SURRENDERS TO BOTHA. HOSTILITIES IN THE AREA ENDED. (Received 9.20 a.m.) PRETORIA. July 0. It is officially announced that the entire German forces operating in German South-west Africa have surrendered to General Botha's Army. Hostilities in this area have now ceased.

STORY OF THE FINAL OPERATIONS.

SIX HUNDRED CAPTURED AT OTAVI. COLONEL BRITS CLEARS THE WESTERN AREA. CAPETOWN, July !). It is officially reported that Colonel Myburgh reached Tsumeb, 30 miles north of Otavi. in the north-east of German Southwest Africa, capturing en route 600 prisoners and some guns. Some British prisoners were released. Colonel Brits, in an immense westerly detour, took Ijo prisoners and - released Union troops who had been captured.

"APACHE" WARFARE NORTH OF ARRAS.

KNIFE AND PISTOL COMBATS SIXTY FEET UNDERGROUND. FURY OF THE FRENCH ATTACK. PARIS, July n. The official "Eye-witness" with the British headquarters of the fighting north of Arras states that the battle-front is barely ten miles in length. Hundreds of thousands of men have been incessantly engaged since the beginning of May attacking and defending the watershed from which the Scheldt Mows.

The- Crrmaiis have brought tlieir best troops to defend the pntrancp to the Lens Plain. They need all their discipline to withstand the fury of the French attack. A divisional commander recently complained that his men were not taking elementary precautions. The men replied with alTeetionate respect: "Well, general, we are-all hero to be killed." They cheered when the general retorted: "Yes, my children, you and I are here to be killed, but each must so contrive his death that it shall be useful to l-'raiice." The Germans .sometimes burrow OOft below the ground. There is v regular system of so-called communication trenches, and also a great concentration of heavy artillery on the elopes of Angres, and in the Bois de Folic, south-west of Lens. There has been much lighting in underground gallerks by the light of torches and electric flares. Attacks are made with hand grenades, which fill the galleries with poigonollH fumes, and end in desperate hand-to-hand encounters. An officer in charge of the machine-gun section narrates that after a week of •apache" warfare, in which t!ie Germans fought with auomatic revolvers and knives, the Germans organised night attacks. The French moved a machine-gun to a barricade in the main street. When the Germans debouched at 50 metres distance, they fell one after another as the gun caught them. It was a terrible moment of slaughter.