EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN.
IMPORTANT POINTS GAINED,
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) .. (Received August ' 18, ' 10.45 a.m.) LONDON, August 17. General Smuts, advancing on the 15th from Nfcuru Mduntafrisj overcame slight opposition, and' reached a position on • the principal tracks to Mrogoro-Kilossa-. j Oiir columns are now clear of the difficult hilly country, and -only twentyfive miles of open steppe separate: us from the Central Railway. • Colonel ■' Van de > Venter, further westward, occupied ■ Mpapuay and is moving towards Kilossa: . ■ : Our naval brigade,, on the 15th, occupied the important/ military coastal station of ; . Ba£amojo> ihiirty-stx xmles • northward -of Dar-es-Salaem, ■ .
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14074, 18 August 1916, Page 5
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97EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 14074, 18 August 1916, Page 5
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