EAST AFRICA.
PROGRESS OF THE CAMPAIGN
ENEMY'S STUBBORN RESISTANCE. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received July 21, noon.) LONDON, .Inly 23. An East Africa official report slates: —The enemy evacuated Mount Shakama on July 17. Wo pursued the main body jind occupied a rid go. northward of Narongombi, which we attacked on July V.). There 'was .severe, fighting, the enemystubbornly resisting and making frequent oonnrer-a-tt-ncks, sustaining heavy losses. Our casualties wore, also onusidorable. The enemy evacuated Kit-ope. Wo drove the rearguard to Madaba.
The oneniv retreat in the Ma singe, region continues. One of our columns is pursuing a small Gorman cohinm southward through Engai'uka, westward of Lake Natron.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12067, 24 July 1917, Page 5
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