Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
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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THE NAVAL EXPEDITION TO LAKE TANGANYIKA.Some ot the officers and men in the bush, with their motor transport. THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR. 155
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SOUTH AFRICANS BRINGING A GUN INTO ACTION. Lake Nyasa. Yet it was the quickest means ofconveyance. Within a week of their arrival atthe front the South Africans were in action. When the war began Northern Rhodesia wasin almost as defenceless a condition as Xyasa-land. The native police, commanded first byMajor Stennett and later by Col. Hodson, werethe only trained force in the territory, and theirnumbers were few. A volunteer corps, theNorthern Rhodesian Rifl«iH, was formed by thesettlers, but, as the total white population ofNorthern Rhodenia, a region six times thesize of England, was barely .(,000, this corpswas also nec<*SHarily small.* Its coinmanderwaH Major Boyd (Junninghame, a noted big-game hunt?r, a^Iministrator anrl transportexp<.Tt. This last qualification was invaluable;,as the nearest railway was 400 miles away.Three or four hundred Hritidi lived near theb<^rder of CeiTnan East Africa, in the high landb<!tween Nyasa and Tanganyika. Fairly goodroa^Js connect

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