The Empire at War, Volume 4Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1921 - Great Britain |
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active service advance ammunition artillery attack August battalion battery Belgian Beyers Botha brigade British Cameroons campaign Cape Corps Captain captured carriers casualties Colonel Colony column command companies Cunliffe Dar es Salaam December defence detachment Deventer district Dschang Duala Edea enemy enemy's European export fighting flank force French frontier Fund further garrison Garua German East Africa German South-West Africa Gold Coast Regiment Government Hannyngton infantry January Jaunde July Kilwa King's African Rifles Lake Lettow Lieut.-Col machine guns Mahiwa March Maritz miles military mountain mounted moved native Nigerian Northern Rhodesia November Nyasaland occupied October officers operations ordered Police position Protectorate province railway reached rebellion rebels recruited Red Cross reinforced retreat river road Rufiji Salaam sent September side Sierra Leone Smuts soldiers South African southern station supplies surrender territory Togoland took town transport Transvaal troops Uganda Union volunteers West African whole wounded Yola Zanzibar
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Page 20 - British soil, the colony remained in essence and was administered as ' a collection of small states, each of which is self-contained and entirely independent of its neighbours...
Page 26 - ... for the fact that this Colony can record a year of prosperity during the great war the credit is given intelli1 Cd. 8172—4, p. 44. 2 Cd. 8172—14, p. 33. gently and gratefully where it is due — to the navy. It is generally realized that the existence of the Colony as it is to-day depends upon its communications by sea ; and this fact perhaps more than any other has brought home to the community their dependence on the Crown and their immediate concern in the fortunes of the war.
Page 335 - Chobe (Liuyauti) rivers, and on the west by the territory of South West Africa. It has not been surveyed as a whole, but its area is estimated at 275,000 square miles. Its mean altitude is about 3,300 feet.
Page 332 - Basutoland) is bounded on the west and north by the Orange Free State, on the east by Natal and on the south by the Cape Province.
Page 362 - Recently, your compatriots in South Africa have taken matters into their own hands by organising what is called passive resistance to laws which they consider invidious and unjust — an opinion which we, who watch their struggles from afar cannot but share. They have violated, as they intended to violate, those laws, with full knowledge of the penalties involved, and ready with all courage and patience to endure those penalties. In all this they have the sympathy of India — deep and burning —...
Page 522 - London records its inflexible determination to continue to a victorious end the struggle in the maintenance of those ideals of liberty and justice which are the common and the sacred cause of all the Allies.
Page 161 - At the commencement of 1916 the German forces in German East Africa were estimated at some 16,000 men, of whom 2,000 were white, with 60 guns and 80 machine guns. They were organized in companies varying from 150 to 200 strong, with 10 per cent, of whites and an average of two machine guns per company.
Page 55 - ENACTED by the Governor of the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council so far as the provisions hereof relate to the Colony and to the Southern Provinces of the Protectorate, as follows: — 1.
Page 373 - The Governor-General may, in time of war, by proclamation call out and mobilize the whole or any portion of the Coast Garrison Force, the Active Citizen Force, and the Citizen Force Reserve, for active service against an enemy anywhere in South Africa within or outside the Union'.