Africa
IK NORTHERN RHODESIA. GERMANS DRIVEN ACROSS THE BORDER. Capetown, September 15. The Germans attacked Abercorn, near Lake Tanganyika, on September oth, hut were repulsed by Maxims. They renewed the attack on the Bth, with field guns. Finally Lieut. McCarthy and 90 men, by a forced march with a Maxim, drove the Germans over the border with considerable loss. The British sustained two casualties. (Abercorn is in Northern Rhodesia, near the German East African frontier.)
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 25, 16 September 1914, Page 5
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75Africa Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 25, 16 September 1914, Page 5
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