AFRICAN WARS.
FURTHER SUCCESS IN GERMANY'S . COLONY. K! LOSS A OCCUPIED. ' . The High Commissioner reports:— ■ LONDON, August'2s (12.50 An official' report from Hast Africa states: We rtccupie'd Kilossa, The.enemy is retiring south-eastwards. -■ Received 'August- 2li, S.'s p.m, ■ _ . LONDON, August 25, II; is officially announced that GeneTal Vanileventer on the morning of the -Ist inst, attacked Kilossa and fighting eoiitinued all day.' A column was. detached at' night time to attack Okata, twenty miles eastwards of the town, with a view to assisting General Vandorveiitor. • This move was, successful anrHKilossa-was occupied; on the 22nd, tlie 'eneiiiy retiring'to the southeast, REBELLIOUS AFRICANS, HOSTILE INFLUENCES IN ORANGE
FREE STATE,
(Australian and N.Z. Oahle Association.) .LONDON', August 2;j, ■The Bloemfontein oorrespoiiflpiit of tlie.Daily Mail staffs that, General the, Rt. Hon. Louis Botha, speaking at the South African Party' Congress, disclosed tli,lf n second rebellion had been threatened, but .was more futile than the first. Foolish people had been secretly sworn in for a second rising, Received August-. 26, S.y.p.m. n - LONDON, August 25. The Capetown correspondent of the Morning' Post states that General Botha's statement regarding a recrudescence of the rebellious movement in the Free 1 Stale and elsewhere is no cause for surprise or alarm. II; is eomiiioii _ knowledge |lint the Nationalists are. irreconcilable ■ juid -ire, not sett.iifg any limifs on their endeavour to frustrate the work of the supporters of General Botha. There are grounds for suspecting German agents, who have 'not yet all-been run to earth.
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North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13657, 28 August 1916, Page 3
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245AFRICAN WARS. North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13657, 28 August 1916, Page 3
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