AFRICAN AFFAIES

Taihape Daily Times, 5 February 1918, Page 5

AFRICAN AFFAIES

ANOTHER BRITISH SUCCESS.

LONDON, Feb 3

East Africa Official. —A Cape coloured corps occupied Givembe unopposed and pursued the enemy to Mtarika. We seized Pumuni Hill, forty-five miles inland of Port Amelia, capturing thirty tons of food. Later we occupied Ankwabe.

FLOODS IN PORTUGUESE TERRI-

TORY.

Received ,11.40. CAPETOWN. Feb 4

Serious floods are reported from Besra, in Portuguese territory. The Pangwe river . has inundated large tracts, and railway communication i? interrupted. Enormous damage has been done to sugar "crops. The floods are increasing. . .