Africa

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 44, 19 September 1916, Page 6

Africa

GENERAL SMUTS' REPORT. DRIVING THE ENEMY BACK. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. # (Received 11.50 a.m.) . London, September 18. General Smuts reports: We , dislodged the enemy in the Uluguru. Hills, and made prisoners of many. We captured most of their''artillery ammunition and quantities of stores. Our converging columns in the Central Mountains effected a junction at! Ivissaki. The enemy remnants are retiring south-east. Qur operations are being conducted in.difficult country, necessitating the bridging of streams, blasting of roadways, and maintaining the lengths, of -communications "backwards to tlie "Usambara railway at Tauga. General van der Venter, who is westward of < Uluguru, is now approaching the Ruaha River towards Metehenge, driying the enemy on. We occupied Sinde and Mikinguni, the final ports in the possession of the Germans. We intercepted a German wireless message announcing tlie Belgian capture of -Tabora, the enemy retiring eastward by rail.