SHARP FIGHT IN EAST AFRICA
PORTUGUESE GARRISON ATTACKED j 'BY LARGE GERMAN FORCE (Ree. December 29, 0.45'. a.m.) ! Lisbon, December 2*. i An, official message from Moasm- I bique states: "Two thousand Germans, j with ten machine-guns r.nd two cannon. ! attacked our position on Mount Mkula, i held by 250 Portuguese and five mach- ! ine-guns. The enemy aviiiulted after j three, days' fighting, taking pr'soner I nine .officers and seventeen men. There : were forty Portuguese casualties. Tlie ~ Germans liberated the prisoners. Wβ damaged the machine-gans licfore_ they ; fell into the enemy's ! N.Z- Cable Assn.-Reuter. . |
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 81, 29 December 1917, Page 7
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