EAST AFRICA.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7720, 16 May 1916, Page 3

EAST AFRICA.

PROGRESS OP THE BRITISH FORCE. LONDON, May 13;

General Smuts reports: The enemy under von Lettow and Forbach were driven off Kondoa Irangi on Tuesday night with severe losses. They persisted in't he offensive on Wednesday and Thursday, and after sunset made a determined effort against our left Hank, hut were repulsed. Our losses were inconsiderable. It is reported that the Belgians after slight opposition have reached Kegali. GENERAL SMUTS’ TASK. “The Kaiser’s last-left colony (German East Africa), a country of 380,000 square miles, or nearly twice the area of the whole German Empire, is now entirely surrounded by declared enemies,” says the “Chronicle. ’ ’ “The Germans have their hands pretty full upon the borders of their sole surviving colony,” says “The Times.” “They are confronted from the sea, from British East Africa, from Uganda, from Belgian Congo, from lihodesia, from British Nyassaland, and now from Portuguese Nyasnaland. By declaring war upon Portugal they have closed the circle and ‘ icinmed themselves in.’ ” General Smuts has struck a hard blow at the Germans on the East African frontier in the neighborhood of Mount Kilimanjaro.