SOUTH AFRICA.
SMUTS' RAPID PROGRESS. GERMAN HEADQUARTERS IX FLIGHT. Renter Service. Received Sbpt. 2, 5.5 p.m. London, Sept. 2. General Smuts reports that the enemy is in full retreat east and west of UluIguru mountains. A smaller party, bebe the German military headquarters and the provisional government, have retired to the mountains. The pursuit is being pressed. Unogoro was entered on August 23. It is the moat important town hitherto occupied, and was recently the seat of the provisional government. The enemy abandoned many sick and wounded in the hospital, also a large number of European women and children. The rapidity of the advance prevented the enemy from seriously damaging the central railway.
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1916, Page 5
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113SOUTH AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, 4 September 1916, Page 5
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