THE CAMPAIGNS IN EAST AFRICA
PROGRESS OF THE VARIOUS ' COLUMNS Tho'High Commissioner reports:— London, August 7, 1.25 p.m. General Smuts reports ~ fro;ii East fAfrica -that, naval-forces occupied- tlie 'minor port of Saa Dapi (seventy miles ■north of Dar-es-Salaam) ;on Tuesday, i against light opposition. Other naval j operations are progressing ut various | points on'the coast. , ■> "Having reached the German Central railway at Kilimatinde, Dodomii, and! Kikombo, General Van, der Venter is pursuing the enemy, who was dis- ' lodged from this area, in the direction ' of Mpwapwa, (200 aniles west of Dar- ,) es-Salaam). ; ...' ; "A detachment operating in tho di- ' rection of Isingida, westwards of Koni doa, Irangi, engaged an enemy party, which surrendered after a stubborn resistance in a blockhouse. "Colonel Northey; reports that in an i action at Malanzali on July 2i the eniemy's casualties were 150, exclusive of .-.■. prisoners. After the engagement Colonel Northo/s columns advanced to Mandibira, thirty miles northwards, on ! the road to Tringa." •
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2845, 9 August 1916, Page 5
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157THE CAMPAIGNS IN EAST AFRICA Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2845, 9 August 1916, Page 5
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