PROGRESS IN THE CAMEROONS.
GERMAN CONVOYS CROSS INTO SPANISH TERRITORY. (Times and Sydney Sun Serriccs.) LONDON, February 4 Colonel Charles Dobell, telegraphing from West Ffrica on February 1 says that Colonel Haywood's column occupied Daing, in the centre of" the Cerman Cameroons, on January 25, after a slight loss, after defeating the enemy m another <*gagement. Two days later the column occupied the town of .\jr_l-. The column is in touch with the French troops at Mbam further west. Another British column under Colonel-Coles occupied Lolodorf' in the south-west of the German territory. ' Large enemy convoys continue to pass Muni.'iuto Spanish Guinea to the Sou ■.!) ot the I araoroons. General Sir FT. L, Smith-Dorrien reports from East Africa that the enemy has abandoned the small post of Kasigau, which he occupied on December 6.
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 31, 5 February 1916, Page 6
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