So neat and swift had been the scheme prepared by the Commander-in-Chief that the German was incredulous—­until his scouts kept coming in and telling him what the real state of affairs was.  For Brits, after a two hundred mile detour through the wildest country had swept right north to Namutoni on the Great Etoscha Pan, had released more prisoners and was swerving further out.  Myburgh was in Tsumeb.  Both these generals were behind the Germans, ready to strike out forthwith; and von Franke was cut off from all his supplies.  He had simply been caught—­caught by remorseless forced marches and strategy as neat as a trivet—­in a great fork with bent prongs.  On the sketches in this little book, to which I have sacrificed everything possible for clearness, the general simple scheme of the campaign may be apparent.  The final position on July 5 was something like the diagram on page 61 [A].

Even guerilla warfare is an unattainable luxury when you are surrounded.

[Illustration:  [A] The Fork that Caught the Germans]

[Illustration:  The Last Phase.  Opposite the very spot where surrender was made.  A vast ant-hill at 500 Kilometres]

[Illustration:  South-West Africa.  Position of enemy before surrender]

At kilometre 500 on the line between Otavi and Korab, at 2 a.m. on the 9th of July 1915, von Franke, the German Commander, and Dr. Seitz, the Imperial Governor of South-West Africa, discreetly surrendered to Louis Botha, Commander-in-Chief and Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa.

[Illustration:  The Last Phase.  The German white flag train just arriving] [Illustration:  The Last Phase.  General Botha meets Von Franke at 500 Kilometres] [Illustration:  The Last Phase.  Troops entraining to return home]

[Illustration:  The Last Phase.  The famous Rhodesian Regiment that did so much in the final brilliant movement] [Illustration:  The Last Phase.  Isumeh.  British prisoners released]

APPENDIX

THE TERMS OF SURRENDER

PRETORIA, July 10.

The terms of surrender of the military forces of the Protectorate of German South-West Africa, as agreed to by the Government of the Union of South Africa, and accepted by his Excellency Dr. Seitz, the Imperial Governor of the Protectorate of German South-West Africa, the commander of the military forces, which was signed on the 9th of July, 1915, are that—­

(1) The military forces of the Protectorate of German South-West Africa (hereinafter referred to as the Protectorate) remaining in the field under arms and at the disposal and the command of the commander of the said Protectorate forces, are hereby surrendered to General the Right Hon. Louis Botha, Commander-in-Chief of the Forces of the Union of South Africa in the field.  Brigadier-General H. T. Lukin, C.M.G., D.S.O., acting on behalf of General Botha, shall be the officer in charge with arranging details of the surrender and giving effect to it.