AFRICAN CAMPAIGNS.
GERMAN EAST AFRICA
A BRITISH ADVANCE
COUNTER-ATTACKS REPULSED
The High Commissioner reports:— LONDON, .March 9 (11.5 p.m.). In East Africa the troops commanded by Liout.-General J. C. Smuts advanced against the Germans in the Kilimanjaro area.
On Tuesday General Smuts seized the crossings of the Lumi river, with insignificant loss. Soveral enemy counterattacks were successfully repelled. Tho Lumi is a stream flowing from the south-east of Mount Kilima-njaro into Lake Jipc. It irrigates the remarkably fertile oasis of Tavcta, on the frontier of British East Africa, at the foot of Kilima-njaro (18,700 feet). The German frontier, running south-east from Lake Victoria Nyanza, forms a "bulge" to take in the great mountain. The British forces arc advancing from Voi. on tho Mombasa-Uganda railway, from which a branch lino is being built towards tho German frontier.
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Press, Volume LII, Issue 15536, 11 March 1916, Page 9
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