GENERAL BOTHA'S ESCAPE.
NEARLY KILLED BY MINE.
DEATH OF ATTENDANT. (Received August, 15, 5 p.m.) London, August 14. An officer who went through the South-west African campaign relates that the Germans placed ten mines across a roadway Bft wide. Three more mines were found on a railway line, which would have killed everyone within a hundred yards. General Botha was nearly killed by the explosion of a mine, which killed one of his attendants.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15997, 16 August 1915, Page 8
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