EAST AFRICA.

Taranaki Daily News, 31 May 1917, Page 5

EAST AFRICA.

' FORCES ON THE MQME. /;! iORTUQOBSfi TERRITORY* RaO||j^| SUCCESSFUL BRITISH BUBOCIR, 'lf Received May 80, p.« jjh,' \'''''sM - •■■_ ■••',' London;' May Jfc? m An East African official menage Itatet , : ,| that the dry season is appnowJiW'li favoring activity. The flrrt toF&M May marked a general louthward rw»r %| ment of the German forces in the Am-,*! Fiji valley and the coastal'an*. Q#m If Muthwofd of the valleys were 4(WI'« farwd to the Matanduvalley, whflstrtir, <a ther south raiders penetrated PottaMatW *M territory towards the border of land, burning native villages, terroiWW ! { $ the inhabitants, and carrying off ito&'m to depots northward'and Rovanja MMtb Ward. The movement in the cetftoU ' 3 areas commenced early in German columns at Mahnnge p»oi»4»*' : 'li towards Gunbiro and Gdoagea, breaking into two main bodies, amwffi ing towards the Portuguese border. jKsM other, commanded by Major 'Wsntt|S((33i broke northward, evading the operating (between Irtaga and Lake MWsjs asas, and reached Kitunda. i Ml On May 0 the British, Rhodesisa vik'M other troops started fat pursuit' oj JM'lttl German commander, and captured on the 22nd sixty, miles sontb«aidUw#J Tabora, the Belgians co-operatfaK i&'« the" British from the central nSflMb*., ,: | H * w r -m