Africa.
CAMEROONS AND NIGERIA.
SUCCESSFUL OPERATIONS. Times and Sydney Sun Service*. (Received 8 a.m.) London, November 26. The Press Bureau states that • the process of driving back the enemy in Nigeria and the Cameroons is being successfully continued. A fresh force under Colonel Mayer is acting in conjunction with the British naval and military force.
FURIOUS FIGHTING.
Pretoria, November 26.
Official: Captain Rutherford, with fifty of Eslin’s Horse and a hundred of the South African Mounted Rifles, attacked three hundred rebels in a strong position at Rondefontein, protected by rugged hills. Furious fighting occurred. Captain Allan King was shot just after binding up a trooper’s wounds. Two others were killed and eleven wounded. As it was impossible to dislodge the enemy the Loyalists Mammans Kraal. Seven rebels were killed and several wounded. FIFTY REBELS TAKEN. Pretoria, November 26. Commander Gengsey captured four commandants and fifty rebels at Nylstroom.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 283, 27 November 1914, Page 5
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