SOUTH-WEST AFRICA.
GERMANS GLAD TO SURRENDER
Lieutenant C. R. Digby, formerly of Christchurch, who was on General Botha’s staff during the campaign in German SouthWest Africa, in a letter home (reports the Press) says: —“The Germans in South-West Africa were very confident they were going to win in Europe. When we told them their casualties were over two millions they laughed, and said the Russians might have lost that, but they had only lost about 30,000. They are a very confident lot. Had the surrender not taken place wo would have had a famous scrap at Khorab, where the Germans were entrenched. They hold a strong position, and the ground in front was heavily mined. They had more guns and Maxims than wo had, but some of our guns wore heavier, and would have given them a rough time. They were glad to surrender, I think, as wo had given them a pretty harassing time, and kept them on the run for days. The sand, dust, and heat were something too wicked for anything, at times.’’
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Otago Witness, Issue 3215, 27 October 1915, Page 53
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