OPERATIONS IN AFRICA.
In a recent speech, the new Secretary for the Colonies (Mr. Bonar Law) said : "In Africa, as in Europe, the Germans were much better prepared for war than we were. They had a superiority of artillery, still more of machine guns and munitions, and in the Cameroons they actually had two aeroplanes. Fortunately, our people acted so quickly that they seized them, sent them to South Africa, and I think it very probable that they were used by General Botha, in the conquest of German Southwest Africa. They had this superiority, but, after all, fighting there is of a different character from what> unfortunately, it is in trench warfare in Europe. Though we had inferiority in munitions, we had superiority in men. "The on« feature which to me is the most striking, if not surprising, is the way in wiiich British colonists and settlers everywhere have thrown, themselv«s wholeheartedly into joining the active forces against the enemy. In the invasion of Togoland, out of the total unofficial European population 95 per cent, actually took up arms on that occasion. Of the official population, that is, those in the service of the colonial Government, the difficulty has been to prevent them going. "-
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Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 92, 16 October 1915, Page 14
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