Africa.
SOME HOT WORK. AN INDIAN DETACHMENT OVERWHELM]®. Received April 20, 12.25 a.m. London, April 24.. The War Office supplies official details of the operations in East Africa. By January 2nd the enemy was cleared out of British territory, and the British Indian column, with the assistance' of the naval forces, established itself along the Umba Valley and occupied Jasscn, twenty miles in the enemy's territory, which was held by three companies of Indians under Colonel Raglin Singh. On January twelfth a Strong German force was repulsed with heavy loss. The Germans were two thousand strong, with six guns' and many machine-guns. Thoy 'again attacked on the eighteenth, and the garrison, losing its commander, surrendered on the nineteenth, after, exhausting its ammunition and losing 270 men, mostly prisoners. Concurrently with the operations at Umba we occupied 'Mafia. The garrison surrendered. Our armed steamer on Lake Victoria Nyanza drove ashore and disabled the armed German .steamer Muanza. Our forces defeated 300 Germans in the Sliirati district, inflicting heavy loss.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 271, 26 April 1915, Page 5
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168Africa. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 271, 26 April 1915, Page 5
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