Africa.
IN NAMAQUALAND.
SOUTH AFRICAN MOUNTED MEN
EFFECT A SURPRISE.
GERMAN FORCES SURRENDER.
(ReceivcHl 9.30 a.m.), Capetown, September 15> ■The South African Mounted Rifles under Colonel DaWson, , after two night^fnarches surprised the'German forces occupying a drift .sixty, miles from Steinkoff in Namaqualand: After a sharp -skirmish they coliw pelted the Germans to surrender. One rifleman was killed. (XamaqualuiHl is a parched • South Virican region of 100,000 square miles iiiptwoen Wiifi'seh Bay and fclio Orange
Uvor, roaching. from the Atlantic >ast to tho-Kalatari desert.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 25, 16 September 1914, Page 6
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