GERMANS IN AFRICA.
' AN ATTACK REPULSED. Received this day, 1.10 a.m. Capetown, Tuesday. The Germans attacked Abercorn, near Tanganyika, on September sth, and were repulsed by Maxims. They renewed the attack on the Bth with field guns. Finally Lieut. McCarthy, with 90 men, by a forced night march, with a Maxim, drove the Germans over the border with considerable loss. The British lost two men.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 704, 16 September 1914, Page 5
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65GERMANS IN AFRICA. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 704, 16 September 1914, Page 5
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