IN EAST AFRICA.

North Otago Times, Volume CVI, Issue 14025, 17 January 1918, Page 6

IN EAST AFRICA.

REOOM)EAIKV'SeAS(>N. f TREATMENT OF NATIVES. ..■: LONDOf January 1. ■ The London Gazette publishes a despatch from General HoskinV deßcrib}" ing the operations in East Africa froin January 20 Jo May 20. 'it deals maikly with the great "difficulties; of th«' rainy season, which was'tie-wettest for many years, seriously hampering opera- ■ tious by ihtelTupHngJcommunicaliona,: causing a' great increase. in. malaria and} clyseiitcry, and necessitating -|jie; wrih-'; jtrftwal of Europeans;kny^uth ,: Airican, ' units. It was also necMsaix-to -tvktil' ' tute native carriers transport for animal, transportj.and-srtijd greyly to General t|? readyvhelp given Gomtirnfn) of India; fiouth-Afnca^BrlHsn^Easl.-Africa, ,U£anda,\and "e|> pecially thanks, Chief in India his many'demands, Msstefm;os appreciation'fb v; the ypirit"anflce"lnnesß' of the troops, Jo tho.work'of nl units, ; th 0 supply, dical services,.^andy by the;mereanti'lej&in^ The. rteapatchVemph'asises'vth'afe i ; W- ; enemy sufferetl- less > ? h«h from -the !T«ny^i : - ; '' season '•becauser: his. acclimatised and Jus. .- indigenous to' the cquntr^> he was operating on interior line's.wira^ [■■<- : . |-wter.in'troops', and Ms. power of living on the countn wis accentuated by" f,it t that while the British took and pa)<P " tor onl> what the villagela could Ihe Germans did iint'icruplp to fnUflJiW I ohildren as porters, they sbnrthW bnelrv v J starving, thus increasing .the difficulties' i ¥i of the advancing British." ,/.".* 'tyl