15 AUGUST 1914, Page 3

On Friday week the British forces in the Gold Coast

Colony seized the port of Lome, in German Togoland. No resistance was offered, and South Togoland up to one hundred and twenty kilometres north from the coast was simultaneously surrendered. Togoland, part of the former Slave Coast, was annexed by Germany in 1884. It has an area of over thirty thousand square miles. British bluejackets have also destroyed the wireless station at Dar-Es-Salam, the main port of German East Africa. It is reported that the Germans have evacuated Swakopmund, in German South-West Africa, after blowing up the jetty and sinking the tugs in the harbour. This port was constructed at great expense owing to the nearness of Walfish Bay. Two or three other German wireless stations have been destroyed.