AFRICAN CAMPAIGN
IMPORTANT ADVANCE
(Reuter's Telegrams.)
HAVRE, August- 5. A communique states that the Belgians occupied. Kigoma and' Ujiji, tho most important German port on Lake Tanganyika, and the terminus of the railway from Dar-es-Salaam.
GENERAL SMUTS" S OPERATIONS,
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
LONDON, Aug. 6.
The Central Ne\ys states that telegraphic advices have ibeen received) in London indicating that- the enemy in East Africa- have concentrated ini a strongly fortified 1 position. General Smnts's main column is hurrying up with, the object of forcing a decisive engagement, which, if the enemy are defeated, it is considered' will probably lo the last general engagement in "the campaign.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 7 August 1916, Page 5
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