IN THE OUTPOSTS OF THE EMPIRE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2255, 15 September 1914, Page 5

IN THE OUTPOSTS OF THE EMPIRE

BRUSH IN EAST AFRICA : BRITISH FORCES REPULSED London, September 14/.. .■ A report from Nairobi, East Afrioa, . states that a strong German force occupied Karungu, a town on tie eastern. ■.. side'of Victoria Nyanza, in BritishEaet ' ■■■'•-■ >■ Africa, a, few miles north of where that : ' Protectorate meets German East Africa. \ British forces, dispatched from Port ' Florence, further north, on the lake, to 1 intercept another German force at the ■ Isavo River, wore repulsed. Two officers and some natives were token pri* ' oners. . Some of the wounded in the action, - which was fought on September 6, state ■ that the Punjabis suffored heavily in an _ unsuccessful bayonet charge, while at- , tempting to capture some machine guns c in the face of a murderous fire, SCOUTS FROM SOUTH AFRICA.; UNDER GENERAL DE' WET, ' ' ; London, September 13. / It-is announced that a movement is 1 on foot in South Africa to offer Earl ' Kitchener a corps of and Dutch ■ J Scouts Vo serve in Europe under Gen-'" " 1 eralde 'Wet, GIFT. FROM SASKATCHEWAN. London, September 13. ' The Government has accepted the I State of Saskatchewan's offer of 1500 i horses, costing a quarter of a million dollars. . ." '.