EAST AFRICA.
ENEMY SURPRISED.
t-'fcD&CED BACK SIX MILES. Received Oct. 14, 5.5 p.m. London, Oct. 13. East Africa official: Our right column troops from Kilwa occupied Ruponda, an important junction of tSie tracks at the nortK-westem end of the Mucra plateau, and on the flank line of retreat of the enemy's main biJdy, whose rearguard i.< being pressed hy our force moving southward fj-om XtJiayj. Our rapid advance surprised the enemy, who was also making foijEuponda. We dislodged a strain; detachinent from positions near Majndas. southward of Mahenge. We forced til..'ir retirement six miles north-eastward.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1917, Page 5
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95EAST AFRICA. Taranaki Daily News, 15 October 1917, Page 5
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