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many guns, took but a minor part in the advance 

 on Moshi, the terminus of the Tanga line, and the 

 first objective of the forward movement. The 

 main fighting fell upon the division under General 

 Smuts himself, who was working on the other and 

 eastern side of Kilimanjaro and along the McTou 

 line. The Germans put up a hard day's fighting 

 along a line of low hills of which Latima and 

 Riata were the principal heights, but finally they 

 had to abandon their positions and fall back, no 

 doubt according to a long- prepared plan, to a 

 position near Kahe. 



The chief part taken by the E.A.M.R. in these 

 operations was a trip through the bush to cut the 

 railway line south of Moshi. This was done 

 successfully enough, but as it was at least twenty- 

 four hours after the last German train had passed, 

 it was hardly a very valuable performance. (Per- 

 sonally, I remember the work, because a couple of 

 swarms of bees put up a very severe offensive 

 against us, inflicting much discomfort on men 

 and horses.) Our division now joined up with 

 General Smuts' forces, and the troops moved on 

 to attack Von Lettow's position at Kahe, where 

 he was coolly waiting for us. The evening before 

 the fighting at Kahe itself the Germans attempted a 

 night attack on our (General Sheppard's) brigade. 

 About seventy or eighty crept quite close up to 

 the camp, and from about 8 p.m. till I o'clock in 

 the morning fired into it at close range. Appar- 

 ently, a considerably bigger force also came out 



