IN PORTUGESE AFRICA.
An East African official message states t A small, exhausted German force, short of food and ammunition, moved- up thai * Lujenda Valley, in Portuguese territory, capturing some small posts, and subaei cpjently dispersing into raiding parties between Lake Nyassa. and Fort Amelia,. British mounted troops followed them up the Lujenda Valley, and other columns aro co-operating. The Portuguese landed troops at Fort Amolia.
Berlin claims to have been informed by wireless messago that 1700 Germans ana 9600 black trained" troops have penetrate*! Portuguso East Africa.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3331, 16 January 1918, Page 15
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88IN PORTUGESE AFRICA. Otago Witness, Issue 3331, 16 January 1918, Page 15
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