South West Africa campaign south, faced with certain destruction, surrendered. When the Germans provided lists of the names of approximately 2,200 troops under their command, Botha told the German delegation that he had been tricked, as he knew that the Germans had 15,000 men. Victor Franke, the German commander, replied, "If we had 15,000 men then you wouldn't be here and we wouldn't be in this position." Before an official declaration of war between Germany and Portugal (March 1916), German and Portuguese troops clashed several times on the border between German South West Africa and Portuguese Angola. The Germans won most of these clashes
West Africa (magazine) to every cause which holds out a prospect of advancing the position of West Africa as a prosperous and contented member of the Empire...". Having begun as a source of news about events and issues in the British colonies of West Africa as well as a link between the colonial power and its administrators in the field, for 80 years "West Africa" magazine was considered a major source of information about the region. In the mid-1960s it was the target of a successful takeover bid by Cecil Harmsworth King's media empire. In 1978 it began to publish poetry and fiction