Africa.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 27, 18 September 1914, Page 5

Africa.

CEN. DE LA KEY’S DEATH.

PARTICULARS OF UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT.

MISTAKEN FOR BANDITS.

fur EISOTKIO TiLBGKAPH—CoPYBIGHi [United Press Association.] Capetown, September 16.

General De la Key and Mr Beyers were returning in the evening from Df la Key’s farm. The police were seeking a gang of desperadoes who wev: using a similar motor-car. The polk,':had previously killed a doctor and wounded his wife and sister in similm circumstances. Three gangs had been in operation. They raided a bank last week, and shot dead the man who discovered them at the safe. On Sunday they killed two police and escaped on a motor-cycle. The police organised a hunt and surprised them in their hiding places. The bandits killed a deand escaped with a woman and child, fusiladiiig the residents. The police had since hunted them in motors.

ALTERATION, OF THE MAP IN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA.

Capetown, September 17

The Premier and the leader of the Opposition are taking steps to counteract the misapprehension existing in the minds of a section of the Dutch population that there was some connection between General Beyer’s resignation and General De la Key’s death. The Government had accepted the resignation with regret a few hours before.

It is not intended to appoint a successor at present. The police have since surrounded tiie bandit at Reefkopje.

Capetown, September 16

The Premier, Mr Botha, in the Senate, announced that tire Government had decided to acquire parts of German South-West Africa for stategical reasons.