GENERAL BOTHA'S TASK

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13743, 5 April 1915, Page 5

GENERAL BOTHA'S TASK

London, March 31

A volunteer writes: —"I do not think that people at Home realise the task we have before us in conquering German South-West Africa. It is a vast country. The German forces are pretty numerous, and well established inland in positions they have been preparing for years. They have a fine system of strategical railways, and a big supply of stores and munitions. The rebellion in the Union was a. wet squib. Of course, it was engineered by Germans, and was the result of years of scheming. It has brought home to the people of this country the importance of finally smashing the Kaiser's Empire. Dutch Transvaal burghers are arriving here. Many fought against us; yet they willingly left their farms to help us redden the map. They are the finest body of irregular hprso in the world/ and better equipped than they were for the Boer war. It is stated that General Botha hopes to see the thing through before Christmas."