FIGHTING IN AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2699, 19 February 1916, Page 5

FIGHTING IN AFRICA

THE CAMEROONS CONQUERED London, February 17, 8.45 p.m. The High Commissioner reports:— "The Commandant of the British East Africa Forces reports that the man German reserves were located in. the neighbourhood of Salata Hill. Our casualties totalled 172. "Colonel Dobell, iu West Africa, reports that active operations have practically elided. The conquest of the Cameroons is complete, excepting the isolated position of Mora Hill." ON LAKE; TANGANYIKA NAVAL BATTLE ON BOXING DAY By Association—Copyright (Itec. February 18, 9.10 p.m.) Gape Town, February 17. Stirring details of two British motorboats gallantly fighting a German gunboat on Lako Tanganyika on Boxing Day are related by a participator. He says: "We sighted a great blot on the horiison steaming coastwise. Off wo went after her, though she was fivefold our combined tonnage. We were so small that she did not- see us until we wore about 4000 yards off, then she turned on us, doubtless 'expecting aneasy capture. We steamed straight at her, and opened fire at 3500 yards, she replied, and shells were falling all round us, but not hitting us. Our second shot destroyed the wireless, the third hit ler wafer-line, when she turned and fled. We wero faster, and our fifth shot killed the captain and two of the crew. She then hoisted the white flag. We captured her after twenty minutes' fighting. Sho was a powerful vessel, protected by large steel shields. She was hit iu ten places, and we were not hit, though the enemy's gunners were sailors from the Konigsberg." |