CLOSING IN ON THE GERMANS
THE ROUND-UP IN EAST AFRICA WORK OF CONVERGING COLUMNS Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. London, September 18. Official:—"General Smuts dislodged tho onemy in the Usagara Hills, took many prisoners, and captured most of the artillery, ammunition, and quantities of stores. Our converging columns in the central mountains effected a junction at Kissaki, tho remnants of the enemy retiring south-oast. Our operations are in difficult country, and ontail tho bridging of streams, tho blasting 'of roadways, and maintaining lengths of communications backwards to the Usambara railway to Tanga. "General Van der Venter, westward of Usugara, is 'now approaching tho Riiaha River towards Mathenge, driving the enemy on. We bavo occupied Lindi and Mikindang, tho final German ports. We intercepted a German wirefesß messago announcing tho Belgian capture of Tabora. Tho enemy is Tearing eastwards by rail."
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2881, 20 September 1916, Page 6
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139CLOSING IN ON THE GERMANS Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2881, 20 September 1916, Page 6
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