THE WAR IN EAST AFRICA
ATTACK ON A BELGIAN POST REPULSED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright London, January 18. 'A' German East African forco, consisting of 150 Europeans, six hundred regulars, and many native troops, \fitb Kotchkiss and Maxim machine-guns, and with field guns, attacked the Belgian garrison at Lusinga (west of I/ako Tanganyika). There was a desperate fight lasting nineteen hours. The Belgians, with a considerably weaker force, repulsed their assailants, who suffered heavily. Tho Belgians last thirty killed and forts-six wounded.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2673, 20 January 1916, Page 5
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82THE WAR IN EAST AFRICA Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2673, 20 January 1916, Page 5
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