HIGH COMMISSIONERS REPORTS
WELLINGTON, Jan. 6. Tho High Commissioner reports I London,^ January 4th, 9.45 p.m.: i Tho Admiralty announces that the i transport Ivernia was rank by a submarine in bad weather on the Ist. of | January tn*e Mediterranean. She was carrying troops, of whom 120 ! are missingl, in addition to 33 seaj men. London, 4th. Jan., 10.45 p.m. The War Office states that in East Africa on January Ist our forces S stormed the strongly* entrenched lines in Mgetta Valley, inflicting heavy casualties and capturing several guns and howitzers, pusuing' the enemy along the road leading to Rufiji Valley. .Meanwhile a detached column widely detoured in Tlie . trackless oounlay, and established itself acrose Rufiji river astride of pnncipai roadsi soutliwardsi.
Considerable enemy forces are reported to bo in €he lower Rufiji vallfeys.
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Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 10286, 6 January 1917, Page 5
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