The Archive · 1916

[FROM BRITISH LEGATION, PEKING

London, Feb. 17.

A telegram from West Africa dated the 16th received from General Dobell states that the French we closed the frontier up to Ngoa and all east of that place. The Campo column has a few miles to traverse to close the line from the sea. Active operations are now practically ended and the conquest of the Cameroons is complete with the exception of an isolated position on Mord Hill. The German Commandant Zimmerman succeeded in

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