SOUTH AFRICA.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 175, 27 July 1915, Page 5

SOUTH AFRICA.

REBELLION AN© DA3IARALAND

THE ESTraiATE© <CJOST.

GERJIAN TREATMENT <OF

NATTVES

(Received July 26. '9:85 p.im) CAPETOWN, .Jitly26. Gencm! Smuts estimated the, rebellion ami operations in Damaraland east £16.000,000. The casualty lists showed an almost identical number .of English and Dutch names.

General Botha stated that ;he now knew that Maritz communicated ■\\4th the German Government as ea-rly as 191S, and received an enoeuraging reply. The Kaiser's telegrams followed these negotiations. The natives under Oei-ma.n rule hailed the victory as a. •deliverance)

General Botha expressed profou-nd disgust -«rt the German treatniwit of the n«.tw<>s and t!ie little, value -th-ey attadwscl ft«> their lives.