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Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1914 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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cluding 141 Britishoftiotirii and nmn. Thu wounilfd are nioKtly doing well,and many are eonvaleecent. Accounts of the engagement from ollicerawho took iJOit in it «how that the fighting wasof a desperate character. All round Tanguthe groimd ia covered witli dense jungle inwhich are many closely cultivated plantations,and the advance—Tanga town was a mile andthree-quarters from the landing place—had to ♦The statement that Gen. Aitkens force rotmiicdto its base was misleading. His force had come directfrom India. The facts were more accurately stated in aWar Office communique issued on April 24, 1915, in whicli,for the first time ollicially, it was stated that Ucn. Aitkeiiwas in command and that the force had come from India,This April communt^^, after recounting the fa lure ofthe attack on Tanga, addetl The force from India,therefore, re-embarked and proceeded to Momba,sa, andthus became a part of the British forces engaged in thedefence of the British East African Protectorate.
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he made against an invisible enemy on wellprepared and concealed positions. And in bushfighting the (iennans showed that they possessedboth skill and res(»iirce. Home of the devicesemployed to delay the British advance worethus described by a correspondent of The Tirnea : Hopes were hidden under sand and brushwood anditretchi-d acrosM pallia and, when trodden on by ourtrooj),s, brought down Hags hoisted in the trees. By thismeans the ranges were accurately marked. The fall ofthe flags was the signal for a heavy fire from sharjj-^hooters, and sometimes from machine-guns, which hadbeen hoisti-d into trees farther to the rear. Another device, which woukl almost seem to have beensuggeisted by Kiplings tale of how an invading pack of Red Dogs was destroyed by the little people, wasresorted to by the enemy with some success. Jlives ofwild bees, partially stupefied by smoke, were placed underlids in the busli on each side of narrow tracks, along whichour troops must advance, some hours befo

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