FIGHT IN NYASALAND
-^RITJSS^R^E[BACK GERMANS ; • .^ :£ '■:['. '. '■.:.(. 11/ 10: p.m.).'. : ■" rL-'V': . '■■' : London,. ' September; 10, morning. ■' | Vr r i■■•■> The.Pi'ess'Bureau reports' that on {.:i. : ,,;; Tuesday;. afßritish ; iforbe! in Nyasalau'd .■unsuccessfully-'attempted to drive' four. p'l> iundred GerniaDS .across■-.. the: frontier. f' ■ V'=: ' J -' ne enemy- bii'-Weane'sday attacked Kafy'::>y- ronga, which.Tv.as: defended 'by, one offi--1[[.:•,:.. per, fifty-fiyp; v troopers,; and .-eight ciyi- \\'';■■): mas. - : They resisted, for. three houtsV i>;,;;.■ : '".:Wien',/-a,.--. -British- -column ■■ arrived. [.'•■. throughout the: day the enemy fought !:.;;'• ■'.':'determinedly;,'but-was .ultimately.driven :;.., at the. point of the bayonet towirds 1 v". the Songwe -River, -with heavy .losses,' .; '. : -including seven ' officers killed..' Two '•'';»■;.' German field-guns, and two machinb [vL./.;. fiuns were" captured. Four British ■;'.■.■.'.; .were killed "atid/. , seven -wounded. ■ Thp ■fa -::■ \lpss of.:natives. who .assisted . is uu: y'.r\ : .-i :, known."''. "" ■' ■•"'■;,■.-..■.-• t..-'' ; -. ..- . •'. . • '■. ■; ■ .-.-.,■■;/. f ~.... The Nyasalarid Protectorate,,' consti- £ v. ' 'tuted in.,.1891, lies' along the southern. f;?;; -..•'" and westerri' shores''of.Lake Nyasa, and f;];'■'■'■: ''extends towards the Zambesi. ; ; It. is ii- \_■■''.-■ .bounded on'ithe north'by ■German East f,:::,!::.(Africa. /:The : ; area ; of the protectora.te >}:'A/' i 5.39,315 sguarp'miles, and the ixipula- *■■■'■■' .-.-■: tion in 1913 consisted of .758 Eiiropeans t ;...; (mostly in ihe Shire province 'in the [.'> . ■■ , south), 356 Asiatics, and about 1,000,l':, ■■:'-. ' 000 natives. Karonga is a town .on the j'.:;'...-.'.-'lake near'-'/ its (northern end, : and the, ! Songwe, River, ! forming the frontier,. ;; ■•. :• lies about forty miles, north,.of it, The '-. ; ;' ' principal military 'force is /the -King's i ' . (African Rifles, under Colonel Hoskins. \.\ There is also a volunteer reservo aud a ['.. civil polico force, ' [-/ ,-
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2253, 12 September 1914, Page 8
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239FIGHT IN NYASALAND Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2253, 12 September 1914, Page 8
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