BLOCKADE DUTY OFF EAST AFRICA
BEEHIVES IN TACTICS. Br Tclcgrapli—Press Association-Copyright Fremantle, July 11. A sailor on board a warship -which left Fremantle months/ ago on an unknown mission writes from near Zanzibar:— "Wo 3iave been ion blockading duty, stopping food supplies from entering for the enemy. Our seaplanes make things interesting for the Konigsberg. We are looking forward to a naval landing party. Wo think the Germans will put up a scrap when wo start to force things. "At Tiinga our troops met with a big resistance, and wo had'to abandon the attack. Tho Germans are. well prepared. They placed beehives in/the bush, with ropes attached. Our men tripped on the ropes, -upset the hives, and got a warm time, whilo the Germans, cleverly concealed, with machineguns, poured a deadly fire on'our men.'*-
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2512, 13 July 1915, Page 4
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134BLOCKADE DUTY OFF EAST AFRICA Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2512, 13 July 1915, Page 4
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