The Times history of the war (1914) (14762028654)

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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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German East Africa at the beginning of August,1914, were not sufficient to enable Colonel vonLettow-Vorbeck to take the offensive imme-diately. But he speedily raised a compara-tively large army. All German resident* ofmilitary age in the protectorate, some 3,000,were called to the colours, as well as the nativesoldiers who had passed into the reserve. Italso happened that in August, 1914, there wereat Dar-es-Salaam a nimaber of non-residentGermans. It had been arranged to open at that port on August 15 an exhibition in cele-bration of the completion of the Tangan-yikabahn. Many visitors, including severalanny oflicei-s, had arrived. They had nochance of returning, and together with thecrews of the steainers in harbour were availableto reinforce the ranks of von Lettow-Vorbecksanny. Most of the German missionaries inthe country also joined the ranks ; as alreadystated, mmibers of Arabs volunteered, andlaige nmnbers of natives were impressed. ByOctober, 1914, the German force was three
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(;HI!,» lur^H tM its Moiniiml HtrHii^tli in thupiuviouti Augiutt, uiul ut itH inaxiiiuuii (Jolonulvon Lettow-Vorbeck liuil uucImi- hin cuiiunuiul4,000 KurupeaiiM unci 30,000 nutivtw. At thobeginning of 1916, tiuit is after allowing for theuerioiui caHualtien the enemy liail ah-eady wuf-ferretl (not fewer than 4,000), (Jeiutral Smutst«timateil the (ituinan force at ltj,000 men, ofwhom 2,000 were white, with 60 guns and 80machine guns. This was either un under-estimate or ilid not include the (iemnansoperating in the Tanganyika and Nyasalandregions. The tJei-man troops were organizedin companies varying from ITjO to 200 strong,with 10 per cent, of whites tmd an av(»rage oftwo machine guns pt>r compjiny. They wereplentifully supplied with auuuunition. All theprincipal Goveniment stations were fortified,and were connected with one another and withthe railways by well-made roads, mostlysuitable for mo