German East Africa will soon cease to bo German. In
a despatch published on Monday General Smuts described the concentric advance of his columns against the main forces of the enemy in the east-central district, inland from Dar-es-Salaam. By hard fighting and skilful transport work he had cleared the fertile northern district of Usambara down to the coast at Tanga by July 7th. General van Deventer, who had long been entrenched at Kondoa Irangi as an advance guard, then swooped down on the central railway from Dar-es-Salaam to Ujiji and occupied a hundred miles of it at the end of July. The Germans, concentrating to the east in the Nguru Hills, were attacked last week from all sides but the south and driven out with heavy losses. They fell back on the railway between Mpapwa and the sea. Meanwhile General Northey with his Rhodesian forces is working north-eastward towards Iringa, so as to head them off if possible from the rough bush country round the Rufiji valley and towards the Mozambique frontier.
