A. F. (Albert Pollard) Pollard

Capitolo 70

possessions. The ransom of Germany, had twice a population of eight
million natives and five thousand Europeans. Even if tropical in his
climate, tall earth and especially the slant of Kilimanjaro,
provided that habitable earth for white men and his/her wealth in forests,
gold and the other minerals, pastoral and installations agricultural they were
considerable. There were four excellent harbors, and from two of them,
Tanga and the capital, Give-es-regards, binary they worked far in the
inside. On the north it was limited from British East Africa and
Uganda, on the west from the State of Belgian Congo and on the southwest
from British Nyasaland and Rhodesia Settentrionale, while on the south
Portuguese Mozambique offered some means of provisioning and a last
I shelter in defeat. German strengths were greatly superior to those of
the English in East Africa and the platform of Uganda from Mombasa to
Lake parallel Victoria Nyanza in march with the frontier was a trying
object of attack. The Germans took the offensive ones against the English
north and southwest, without realizing some great success. But only
the arrival of reinforcements from India 3 September and the
failure of the Konigsberg to co-operate prevented the fall of Mombasa,
and only the inadequacy of the British maps on which the Germans had
for once to count, frustrated their attack on the platform of Uganda.
Karungu was also besieged on Lake Victoria Nyanza, but it assuaged from a
couple of British vases;  the invaders of Rhodesia Settentrionale were
beaten back;  and a naval strength bombed Give-es - Regards and it destroyed
the installation without threads. The arrival of a second strength of consignment
from India 1 November the prelude was to a greater reverse. Disembarking
to Tanga the 4, was satisfied from a German strength, superior in the art
of bush that fights if not in numbers that expedited down from Moschi, and
it was forced to re-embark with a loss of 800 accidents. During the
brief span of their colonial experience the Germans had so much learnt
on colonial war how we could teach them after centuries;  for