AFRICA.
AN IMPORTANT MOVE. GENERAL SMUTS' CAMPAIGN. London, March 17. An official in British East Africa states that General Smuts is operating in the most difficult part of the German country and, if the enemy is thoroughly broken there, the effect will he most important and likely to lead to wholesale desertions by the natives. The rapidity of the operations is possible owing to (he construction of a strategic railway from Vol crossing the waterless deserts and linking up with the British frontier. The scenes of General Smuts' latest successes are important military centres. It is difficult to see what the Germans retreating along the Tanga railway can do unless they strike across to the Dar-es-S,ilaain-U,jiji railway and make a stand at Tabora.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1916, Page 5
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123AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, 20 March 1916, Page 5
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