AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17077, 28 January 1916, Page 8

AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

DE WET'S SPEECHES. TO OBSERVE CONDITIONS OF RELEASE. By Tolegraph—Press Association—Copyright. PRETORIA, January 26. Correspondence is published in which General. Botha protests l against De

Wet addressing public meetings where he expressed the hope that the war would result in the freedom of South Africa without a struggle. De Wet now promises to acquiesce' strictly- in the conditions of his release.

EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.

A BRITISH ADVANCE

The High Commissioner reports: — LONDON, January 26.

In East Africa General Smith-Dor-rien reports:—On Monday our troops advanced and drove off a, small enemy force holding the Serengeti camp, east of Taveta, 20 miles north of the frontier in British East Africa.