IN EAST AFRICA.
AFRICAN SUCCESS.’ LONDON November 9, Reuter’s Special correspondent, telegraphing from Mahunga, November Bth reports: The enemy were driven out of the Mkumba and Makwera positions in the Lindi area after most stubhorn fighting. The enemy, after a determined attempt
to surround one of our columns, were repulsed and reared in the nighttime. Our losses were not (.evore the enemy’s were most heavy . j Our occupation of Liwali and the control of the road east and westward, practically cuts his communication in two. The main enemy forces in the north _ are retreating south-east from Mahenge The southerners are operating fifty to seventy miles south-west-’ of Lindi. TVo accounted for 29() whites and 86:! blacks during October.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1917, Page 3
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118IN EAST AFRICA. Hokitika Guardian, 12 November 1917, Page 3
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