EAST AFRICA.
GERMAN CRUELTY CONFIRMED. Times Service, London, Jan. 22. Britisli missionaries from East Africa confirm the reports of the gross cruelty of a German Catholic missionary a!; Tahora. I t is estimated that he killed 200,000 (?) native porters, who were shot in cold blood when exhausted. THE ENCIRCLING MOVEMENT. London, Jan. 22. An official n'.essage from East Africa declares tlint considerable progress ha 3 been made by all the columns engaged in encircling the enemy on the lower Knfigi and the delta. We entered the delta. Pember and Mohoro, and drove out the enemy. Southward of Kidameawe General Norther's columns dislodged the enemy eastwards to the Lupembe, pursuing lira towards Mahenge.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1917, Page 5
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112EAST AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, 24 January 1917, Page 5
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