GERMAN EAST AFRICA.
LAST GERMAN POSTS OCCUPIED.
BELGIANS CAPTURE TA'BORA
(Received September 19, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 18. General Smuts reports:— We dislodged the enemy from the Uluguru Hxlls, capturing many prisoners, most of the artillery and ammunition, and quantities, of. stores. Our converging columns in. the Contra! Mountains" effected- a junction at Kis&'iJd, the ouemy remnants retiring south-wist. .;'■.■■■ • ' i Our operations were in difficult country, necessitating the bridging of streams, the blasting of roadways, and maintaining lengths of communication backwards. General Van tier Venter is westward of Uluzuru, and is now approaching the Rnaha River, towards Methenge, driving the enemy on. We ha-Te ocotipied Sinde and Mikin7Aim } the fin a,! German posts. i We intercepted a- German wireless, announcing *" tii-e Belgian capture of Tabora. SBhe e«««j are retiring eastwards by ra&.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3558, 19 September 1916, Page 5
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132GERMAN EAST AFRICA. Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVI, Issue 3558, 19 September 1916, Page 5
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