17 JULY 1915, Page 2

German South-West Africa has been conquered by General Botha. The

surrender was unconditional, but General Botha has treated his enemy in the field handsomely. After the capture of the capital, Windhoek, on May 12th the German hopes were virtually extinguished. Nevertheless, General Botha had still many difficulties to overcome—difficult country, lack of water, and so on—but he surmounted them all with his usual resourcefulness and determination. The campaign has been brilliantly managed, and perhaps nothing in the war has touched the imagination of people at home more than the spectacle of their former bravo and honourable enemy in the Boer War leading the troops of the self- governing Union in order to bring a great tract of country into the area which enjoys free institutions.