2 JANUARY 1915, Page 9

Christmas Day all over the world was a good day

for us and our allies. On that day Walfisch Bay, the small British coast colony in the centre of German South-West Africa, which was taken early in the war by our enemies, was reoccupied without opposition or lose by the King's South African troops. How they got there is not stated, but it must have been by sea. We are not going to count our chickens before they are hatched, but it is, we think, safe to say that after the war Walfisch Bay is likely to play a very considerable part in the future development of South Africa.