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We chronicle with regret the serious reverse which has befallen

the Germans in South-West Africa, a large convoy having, it is reported, been entirely destroyed, and General von Trotha's "sweeping movement" being thereby rendered abortive. Though we cannot help feeling that the Germans have behaved with far too great severity to the natives, and have in many ways mismanaged their South-West African possessions, British sympathy will be with them in a disaster so painful, and one which may involve great danger to the Colony.

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