Africa.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 June 1915, Page 5

Africa.

OPERATIONS IN EAST AFRICA (successful mtrnsn engageCLEAUIX,! THE EXEMV AWAY. O'iines and Sydney .Sun Services.) i.cceived June lil, (i.25 ~,,„, ~,, London, Juno IS. mm .; RS J* 1 "™" summarise tin f J,lli '. '." ll - M)l >'- At the end oi Feb™ uy .nka-mation was received that , •- ri ','u .'■" ,U " t ° f * l,reo hl,lld ™ -v»..u„, , u -ludi,, K a considerable pro oU.on ,„ Europeans, under CapU° leU'.ausen, was niarehi,,, northward ■a small loice oi tin; knits 4fric-in ~H J w,U ? Hin,r y:uu , mou^ ' under Lieut.-Coloiiel Ilickson, was de^ spatcied to meet tlie enemy, who wer. ••'"■"""tcred on March Otli. " stiff fi«hti"ieir 0 V nd tIIC Gcrm ™ «™ti t , ,'i 7 r sevoral Ilom • s, thv hi ? << l,artCT *> the enoiny refourteen woundUeio l.elifved to be (heavy. On .March 11th one of' our armed steamers on Lake Victoria Nyanza en aire 'aSUML* ** jt A detachment of Indians and the Kings Air.c»n Bifl M attacked the Gel- ;." pos at Salaitu on the 20th, and, <Mnte. the arr.val of reinforcements to enemy „as driven off. Oiv,* to tl't llijrlit ol our native porters we lost two niaclrine-frims, and our casualties were five killed, nine wounded and seven missing. In nn affair with patrols on April lltli. near the Xoltra'sli Biver, Ma or M alker, of the Punjabi Regiment, was Killed. Between May nth and 22nd two small were successfully carried out, one to clear the country south of tin biml.e and the other to capture the * u '" '" •A' l "', which was wrecked earlier on Lake Victoria Xyanza. The country thirty miles south of Simbaenti was Reared of the enemy, who retired across the frontier. The .Sybil was refloated and docked. Our casualties were five Killed and three wounded. The cnemv lost twenty.