MINES AND SHEEP DIP.
GERMAN USE IN DAMARALAND; * TREMENDOUS EFFORTS COME TO NOUGHT. (Received July 28, 10.30 a.m.) CAPE TOWN, July 27. Colonel De Waal, of General Botha's staff, speaking at Stellenbosch, said the Germans laid 6000 mines in Damaraland, but the Union force-only lost nine men thereby, whereas 21 Germans were killed by the mines. The Germans used more sheep dip in poisoning the wells than would suffice for all the sheep in South Africa, but no Union soldier had been killed by drinking the water..
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 457, 28 July 1915, Page 7
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87MINES AND SHEEP DIP. Sun (Christchurch), Volume II, Issue 457, 28 July 1915, Page 7
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