AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17264, 4 September 1916, Page 8

AFRICAN AFFAIRS.

EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN. ENEMY IN FULL FLIGHT. BRITISH MAKE RAPID PROGRESS The High Commissioner reports:— LONDON, September 1. The War Office reports that in East Africa the enemy is in full retreat east and west of the IJlliguru Mountains, south of Mrogoro, whilst a smaller party, believed to contain the German military headquarters and provisional Government, lias retired into the mountains. The pursuit is being pressed. Part of the German heavy artillery seems to have been destroyed and hidden. A naval gun was found destroyed. At Mrogoro, lately the provisional capital and most important -town, we engaged tho enemy, who abandoned lib sick and wounded and many Europear, women and children. Owing to the rapidity of our advance we captured part of the central railway virtually, intact.