EAST AFRICAN FIGHTING.
159 PRISONERS FREED. 100 GERMANS TAKEN. • (Renter's Telegrams.) LONDON, October 2. A Belgian communique states t "General Tombeur, commanding the Belgian forces in German East Africa', reports that when. Tabora was captured the enemy left 50 Europeans, 300 natives (who hare been killed), and 100 officers and*noncommissioned officers and numerous natives, who were made prisoners. Four guns were taken. "The Belgians released 159 Europeans who had been made prisoners of war of had been interned. Of them, 103 were British and 33 missfonaaii, of whom 30 ware Frene'i..
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 236, 3 October 1916, Page 5
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91EAST AFRICAN FIGHTING. Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 236, 3 October 1916, Page 5
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