THE SOUTH AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.
A DANGEROUS SPOT,
HEAVILY MINED ROAD
GENERAL BOTHA'S NARROW
ESCAPE
Received .4 p.m.., August 15. LONDON, August 1L An officer who took part in they South-West African campaign r<»j« there were ten mines across a roadway Bft. wide, and three more on the railway line, which would have killed eT— eryone within a hundred yards. General Botha was nearly killed by the *«.- plosion of a mine, which killed one <i£ -his attendants, whose head was . lialK blown off. . ■
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Wanganui Chronicle, Issue 20436, 16 August 1915, Page 5
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