AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 24 July 1916, Page 5

AFRICA.

GENERAL SMUTS' PROGRESS. ENEMY DRIVEN BACK. CESSION OP RAILWAY SECURED SUCCESS OF BELGIANS: Reuter Service. /Received July 23, 11.5 p.m. London, July 23. A' War Office communication states that General Smuts on July 21 reported , ithat' enemy forces, which were emle-iT-euring to interfere with our coim" - <ions west of Tanga, were* ilri .wards over the Pangini Riv Amani.luw beenocoiji -•-,„.,■■„, „ S j poaWMion of r

Usambara railway, which is being repaired. A Belgian official message slates that a strong enemy force was dislodged by the British occupation of Bukoba Karagwe. They found their retreat barred by a weaker Belgian force at the southwest corner of Victoia Nyanza. The Germans-Europeans were either killed or captured, and the remnants fled in the direction of Mariahilf. The German commander was captured. We found the German steamers Winauza and Ottoheinrich scuttled in Sludlmann Sound. Quantities of arms and munitions and forty boxes of specie were captured. The vessels will be easily raised. ON THE SEA. ' THE JUTLAND BATTLE. GERMAN MENDACITY New York, July 21. The German campaign of lies has reached its height. It is announced today that Berlin officially sent a wireless message on June .'! that a great revolt had occurred before the British Admiralty owing to the Jutland battle and that the theatres were closed. VESSELS FROM THE BALTIC. Copenhagen, July 21. The Germans have released the Adam, which will now continue the voyage southwards through Swedish water?. Three other English steamers bound from Finland to England arc similarly using territorial waters with a view to escaping from the Baltic. SEAPLANE COMES TO GRIEF. London, July 21. 'A strange aeroplane accident occurred at Southampton Water. A large vessel* was outward bound and three seaplanes were manoeuvring overhead. When flying low one suddenly swerved and crashed into the main mast of the steamer, breaking down the steamer's wireless rigging. The seaplane fell on the deck the pilot being killed and a seaman seriously injured. SUBMARINE MINE-LAYER. ■•"' Received July 23, 5.5 p.m. London, July 21. Submarine UCo was only a small Ininelayic. and worked from Zeebrjugge for ibmT*imthe. She laid 240 minqa. When captured the erew jumped overboafd to avoid their explosive bombs, which an English officer gallantly extinguished. --i,/~ i ■