IN AFRICA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16665, 25 September 1914, Page 8

IN AFRICA.

THE UNION'S OPERATIONS.

3ENERAL BOTHA IN SUPREME

COMMAND

3y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. CAPE TOWN, September 23..

General Botha will take supreme command of the operations against German South-west Africa. FIGHTING IN NAIROBI.

News from Nairobi states that a merman force attacked a post twenty Biles from the border, in the Voi district, and was repulsed after sharp fighting for an hour, leaving eight dead.

AN ANSWER TO GENERAL BEYERS.

(Received September 24, 10.15 p.m.) CAPE TOWN, September 23.

The "Rand Mail" describes General Botha's. appointment as an answer to General, Beyers and his splenetic, Sanctimonious satellites.