the enemy.

General Lukin with another brigade had set out from Omarasa at the
same time as Manie Botha, and between them came General Botha and the
Headquarters Staff.

The fight at Otavi was the last stand of importance made by the
Germans. They had shown great bravery, but supplies were failing, they
had been driven into the most inhospitable part of the colony, the
natives were not always friendly, and during the first days of July,
1915, they made preparations to surrender.

The Union troops under General Myburgh, having left the railway,
encountered a body of Germans sixteen miles south of Tsumeb and in the
skirmish that followed lost one man and took eighty-six prisoners.

At Tsumeb, which Myburgh entered on July 8, 1915, some 600 more
prisoners were taken, while he was able to release a number of Union
comrades who had been left behind by the Germans in their hurried
retreat. Colonel Brits had by this time reached the German port of
Namutoni, where he took 150 prisoners, and released some Union
captives, the last that remained in German hands.

Dr. Seitz, the Governor of German Southwest Africa, now opened
communications with General Botha concerning a surrender, and received
the Union officer's terms in the form of an ultimatum. Botha stated
that he and his troops stood ready to fight, if need be, another
battle, but his terms were accepted before the time limit he had fixed
expired.

[Illustration: Conquest of German Southwest Africa by Union Troops
under General Botha.]

At two o'clock in the morning of July 9, 1915, at a spot called Kilometre
500, General Botha, Dr. Seitz the Governor, and Colonel Francke,
commander of the German troops in Southwest Africa, signed the terms of
capitulation. All the Germans surrendered unconditionally. Officers were
released on parole, and were free to live where they pleased in the
country. The regular troops were permitted to retain their rifles, but no
ammunition, and were interned for the remainder of the war in charge of
one of their officers. The Landwehr and Landsturm of the reserve forces
were permitted to retain their horses, but no arms, and were released on
parole, and could return to their homes.

The formal surrender of the prisoners was held at Otavi, July 11,
1915, where General Lukin who was in charge of the details took over
204 officers, and 3,293 of other ranks; thirty-seven field guns and
twenty-two machine guns. By the conquest of German Southw