HUNS BROKEN IN EAST AFRICA

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2908, 21 October 1916, Page 9

HUNS BROKEN IN EAST AFRICA

ENEMY TRAPPED IN FEVER COUNTRY GUNS ABANDONED OR , DESTROYED The High Commissioner reports:— '■ London, October 19, 3.50 p.m. : From East Africa, General Smuts rej ports: "Tho Germans,/who had/ probably intended to make- a prolonged stand immediately south of the central railway,;by the energy of our pursuit were driven out of the bills'with considerable losses. There,is marked/de--terioration in the enemy's, morale. The* bulk of his heavy artillery'.and materials, have been either destroyed or abandoned. The greater portion of his re-': maining forces is confined to a-limited'' area in the south-eastern portion of the colony, where all ports and all mam lines of approach are held by the Allied' forces."- f PENNED UP IN FEVER MARSHES. 1 Australian-New Zealand' Cable Associatidn.London; October 19. • Tho War Office review. of. the" East African operations,states that the bulk of the enemy is now-confined., to-the, neighbourhood of Lower liufiji River. ; It is malarial country, largely sar» marsh, and is untenable after the Oc-' tober rains. . SOUTH AFRICAN TROOPER CRUELLY TORTURED. TO DEATH. (Rec. October 19/6.5 p.m.) . ' London; October 19; '•" A report by the Colonial Office on German East Africa, states that a trooper of the South Africau Rifles was captured, tied to a gun-wheel, beaten by a native under a' European's orders, and then shot seven. times. He died two days later. Captain Count Falkenstein commanded the Germans. Prisoners who have since been captured by the British are believed to include the trooper's murderer. There are also thirteen missionaries, who have been fighting, or doing supply ac 3 transport work. ,