FURTHER BRITISH PROGRESS IN EAST AFRICA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16253, 12 June 1916, Page 5

FURTHER BRITISH PROGRESS IN EAST AFRICA.

CELERITY OF MOVEMENTS DISCONCERT GERMANS. PARE MOUNTAINS CLEARED OF THE ENEMY. (Received June It. 5.5 p.m.) CAPETOWN. JUNE 10. General Smuts has cleared the Pare Mountains of the enemy. The Union forces now lie below the Usumbara Mountains, and the lights of Wilhelmstal are visible. The celerity of their movements disconcerted the enemjjr, and the whole attempt to hold' the neck of the bottle formed by the Pangani closing in on the Pare Mountains failed, despite the favourable terrain. '' . r.?v. The Pare Mountains lie on the northern side of tho Pangani River, which rises near Moshi, at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, and, after flowing in a south-easterly direction, reaches the set at Pangani, about 50 milpg south of the frontier of British East Africa. The neck of land between the Pare Mountains and the River Pangani from which the enemy has been dislodged was mentioned in a cable message on May 31 last. It was then located near Nicheni, at the southern end of the Pare Mountains. The Usambara highlands, which at their northern extremity adjoin the Pare Mountains, are situated about 180 miles south-east of Mount Kilimanjaro, and are separated from the coastline by a comparatively narrow strip of plain A railway runs from Tanga, on the coast, inland to the Usambara district, and thence northwards to Moshi. Wilhelmstal is a town in this district lying north of the railway line, about 220 miles by river from the source of the River Pangani.