THE ROUND-UP IN EAST AFRICA
PRECIPITATE FLIGHT The High Commissioner reports: >: London, September 1, 8.50 p.m. "The War Office reports that in East Africa the enemy is in full retreat east atid west of tlie Ulugiiru Mountains, south of Mrogoro, while a smaller party, believed to contain the German Military Headquarters and Provisional Government, has retired into the mountains. Hie pursuit is being pressed. Part of German heavy artillery seems to have,been destroyed and hidden. A naval gun was found to be destroyed. At Mrogoro, which was lately the provisional capital, and most important town, wo engaged the enemy, who abandoned his sick and wounded, and many European women and children. Owing to the rapidity- of our advance we captured part of the central railway virtually intact."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2867, 4 September 1916, Page 8
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127THE ROUND-UP IN EAST AFRICA Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2867, 4 September 1916, Page 8
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