FIGHTING IN NAMAQUALAND.
GERMAN FORCE SURPRISED
COMPELLED TO SURRENDER
Capetown-, September 15.
The South African Mounted Rifles, under Colonel Dawson, after two night marches, surprised the German forces occupying a drift 60 miles from Steinkope, in Namaqualand, north-west of Cape Colony. After a sharp skirmish they compelled the Germans to surrender. One rifleman was killed.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15716, 17 September 1914, Page 8
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55FIGHTING IN NAMAQUALAND. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15716, 17 September 1914, Page 8
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