GERMAN ACTIVITY IN AFRICA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 22 September 1914, Page 5

GERMAN ACTIVITY IN AFRICA.

REDEEMS A MASS OF RUINS

.(Received Sep. 22, 10.3§ a.m.)

OTTAWA, Sep. 21

Montreal's patriotic fund has closed. A million antl a half dollars was collected in five days.

CAPETOWN, Sep. 21

German, patrols were seen thirty miles from Kakamas. The Germans have destroyed the wells withing thirty miles from the frontier, rendering; attack, from Gordonia difficult.

NEW YORK, Sep. 21

Advices from Bordeaux state that Rheims is a mass of ruins, and colleges and public buildings, in addition to the cathedral, were destroyed.

(Received Sep. 22, 11.15 a.m.)

• LONDON, Sep. 21. A German airman, mistaking the Germans' guns at Nois-de-Casturan for British, dropped bombs, killing thirty Germans.