Africa

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 34, 26 September 1914, Page 5

Africa

GERMAN WEST AFRICA.

GERMANS CROSS THE BORDER INTO CAPE COLONY.

(By Eleotbio Telegraph—Copyright [United Press Association.] Capetown, September 24 Tin •ee hundred German troops crossed the Orange River 20 miles west of Soinfcdrift, and are proceeding tc Pa 11a.

SURRENDER OF GERMAN POST TC RHODESIAN POLICE.

(Received 0.50 a.m.) Capetown, September 25

It is officially announced that tin German post at Schiickmanslnirg, non’ the Zambesi, surrendered without op position to the Rhodesian police. The German residents and a .commissioned officer were convoyed to Livingstone.

FIGHTING AT VERDUN. FIERCE ENCOUNTERS RESULT IN ENORMOUS LOSSES. (Received 8.55 a.m.) Bordeaux. September' 25. Advices from Basle state that the Germans lost 10,000 dead and 15,000 wounded at Verdun. Three German and one Austrian army corps continue the attack. They have boon making gigantic preparations for transporting from Met/, during the past week, some of the heaviest artillery, but unremitting fire from the Verdun forts prevented these being placed in position. The German attacks followed ■each other with lightning rapidity, hut all were repulsed. The plain eastward of Verdun was strewn with 5000 corpses.