Africa.

Taranaki Daily News, 15 July 1915, Page 5

Africa.

BOTHA'S STRIKING SUCCESS. TIiWUTE ISY WiITISIt PARLIAMENT. Received July 14, o.r> p.m. London. July 1.1. The House -of I'ominous adopted a motion thanking General liotlm and the South Africans. .\lr. Asrjujth said the thc'fftre of operations was to n vast e.vtont. singularly unsuited for military movements. lit was a desert of shifting' sand; water-holes were rare and often poisoned; the roads were thickly strewn with mint's, and the railways were torn up: yet with comparatively saiall cost of life General Botha secured a striking success. Combined with their mobility the endurance of the troops made an effective .resistance by the enemy at any point impossible. The lioers and Britishers fought like brothers side by side. Messrs Bonar Law, 11. Chaplin, and T. P. O'Connor paid glowing tributes to liotha. Smuts, and the troops. ATTACK' IX NORTHERN RHODESIA. Received July 14, 10.40 p.m. Capetown, July 14. A strong German (force .-.ado an nilnight attack on Yaisa. on the Northern Khodesian frontier. The enemy was beaten oil'. Our loss was slight. The Germans lost ten Europeans and a number of natives killed, and many wounded. Much ammunition, equipment, and :•(i.res were captured.