. Review of reviews and world's work. who have followed in the news-papers the British fortunes in Africa duringthe v»ar are familiar with the stor>- ofBothas invasion of German Southwest J BOTHA OF SOUTH AFRICA 63: Africa—how he recruited an army of 50,000,half British and half Dutch, entered theGerman territorj- at three points, crossed thedeserts by forced marches (his own divisionmaking 190 miles in five days), surprisedand confused the Germans by the swiftnessof his movements, and at last surroundedthem and compelled their surrender to aforce smaller than their own. It was thesoldier B
. Review of reviews and world's work. who have followed in the news-papers the British fortunes in Africa duringthe v»ar are familiar with the stor>- ofBothas invasion of German Southwest J BOTHA OF SOUTH AFRICA 63: Africa—how he recruited an army of 50,000,half British and half Dutch, entered theGerman territorj- at three points, crossed thedeserts by forced marches (his own divisionmaking 190 miles in five days), surprisedand confused the Germans by the swiftnessof his movements, and at last surroundedthem and compelled their surrender to aforce smaller than their own. It was thesoldier Botha who didall this within twomonths time and witha surprisingly smallloss of life; but it wasthe statesman who,when he had the Ger-man troops at hismercy, refused toshoot them down intheir defenseless posi-tion, because, as hesaid, we shall haveto live with their peo-ple in the years tocome, and it was the same generous spirit that dictated terms ofsurrender more magnanimous than any theworld has known since Grant and Lee met at. TYPING THE TERMS OF SURRENDER OK AFRICA Appomattox. Bothas work made GermanSouthwest Africa (a country nearly threetimes the size of the United Kingdom itself)a province of the South African colonies will settle in it, and it maybecome to the Union what our own greatSouthwest is to the United States. It istrue that German Southwest has not beenhighly esteemed for its fertility, but neither was the Great Amer-ican Desert hft\-\ears ago. Bothas next ser\-ice to the empire wasthe equipment of theEast African expedi-tion, and the successof that venture, un-der the guidance ofits Boer commander,General Smuts, is oneof the brightest pagesin Englands recordof the war. In all Britains do-minions there is at this moment no more than Oom Louis. commanding figuregreatest of Afrikanders. * W. B. S.
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