Africa

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 35, 28 September 1914, Page 5

Africa

TROUBLESOME PRISONERS AT

PRETORIA.

RECRUITING AT A GREAT RAT«,

(Received 8.35 a.m.) Captowu, September 27

A semblance of mutiny occurred at Pretoria among the prisoners of war interned at Roberts’ Heights, but the rouble 'subsided before * violence became necessary. Stringent regula- : ions have , been promulgated for the maintainance of discipline a-nd dealing with attempts ,at escape. Recruiting committees are organising General Botha’s additional force, which is shaping well and provides a much-desired opening for ex-service men who are burning to take the eld. Existing volunteer corps an:l iistrict commandoes in all parts of South Africa are offering for service en bloc

BRITISH COLONIAL FORCE AT WORK. FRONTIER FIGHTING. Capetown, September 26. A Union force occupied' Underitz Bay unopposed, the German garrison "’treating, after blowing up the railay and destroying the wireless station. A German patrol raided Walfisch. Bay, capturing the police sergeant, who attempted to blow up the jetty.

The Germans have cleared all the /order police stations by daybreak rushes of hundreds against the tiny garrisons, apparently-to prevent their watching the defence movements on

Merman territory. It is repor d that the Germans who cross/'" Orange River occupied f’" 'Vdholic Mission .at Pella line; v-.fi, evidently to try to cut off ; ■ anication between Steinkopf and R nsdrift.

FSLICE POST CAPTURED BY “ GERMANS. V’i Pretoria, September 26. Olhcial, —Two hundred' Germans * •a pin rod a police post .at' Ei&foni/in, ’■'ld by a sub-inspector and nine'men .ho escaped. ■ * (Reitfoutein is a mission '.station df British Bechuanaland, near the German frontier.) '\