SMUTS'S CAMPAIGN IN EAST AFRICA'
THE ENEMY'S STRENGTH. By Telegraph-Press Association-Copyright London, June 20. General Smuts, in a dispatch dated April 30, gives details of tho operations in German East Africa. The German forces are estimated at 16,000, of which 2000 are whites. They have GO guns and SO machine-guns, and the troops are organised into companies of 150 and 200 men, with 10 per cent, of whites. The average is two machine-guns per company. General Smuts eulogises Colonel Tithe's work preparatory to the general offensive.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2803, 22 June 1916, Page 5
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86SMUTS'S CAMPAIGN IN EAST AFRICA' Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2803, 22 June 1916, Page 5
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