Africa
OPERATIONS IN THE EAST. ■ INVASION OF GERMAN TERRITORY. SUBSTANTIAL BRITISH ADVANCE The High Commissioner reports: — London, May 29 (11.20 a.m.) Our troops on the northern border of Rhodesia and Nyassaland on Thursday, advanced twenty miles into German territory over the whole front of Lakes Nyassa and Tanganyika. The enemy were compelled to retire from Ipiania (twenty-one miles north of JKarminga) and Igamba (eighteen miles north-east of Fort Hill towards ! New, Langenberg. The South African i and Nyassaland troops effected good work during the night in bridging and crossing the river Soughe. General Smuts reports that the railway station of Same on the TTsambara railway was occupied on Thursday. Another column occupied Lesara, eighteen miles to the south, the enemy withdrawing from the same.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 47, 30 May 1916, Page 5
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124Africa Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 47, 30 May 1916, Page 5
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