INTERNED IN SPANISH TERRITORY
OVER 2000 GERMAN TROOPS. By Telegraph—Pro." Association—OopjTirti'. Madrid, February 6. Official.—Nino hundred German Euro-' peans and 1400 German native troops who entered Spanish Guinea (Muni) have been interned. [Spanish Guinea is a coast colony in West Africa, between Frcnch Congo and the Cameroons.] ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.)' (Re'c. February 7, 5.5 p.m.) London, February 6. The War Office publishes a repcrt by General Dobell, British commander in tho operations in AVest Africa, -which states that fifty-eight more deserters" from the remnant of the German forces surrendered to the French "in January, and more are expected. A strong French column is moving south to the Spanish frontier of Guinea. One has already left the bank of ;the Ntem River. The Cainpo column has reached Ngow, sixty miles from the' coast.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2689, 8 February 1916, Page 5
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134INTERNED IN SPANISH TERRITORY Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2689, 8 February 1916, Page 5
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