248 WAR : CAMPAIGNING IN EAST AFRICA 



their unsuccessful attack, the Germans continued 

 to march rapidly northwards, crossing the Lugenda 

 river, and later the Rovuma again, to the south- 

 west of Songea — thus passing through the extreme 

 south-west of their old colony of German East, 

 and out of that again into Rhodesian territory. 

 There the Armistice, following the complete 

 collapse of Germany and her allies, found them, 

 and one of the clauses of the Armistice necessitated 

 their surrender. It is only fair to acknowledge 

 that the end of the war found Von Lettow himself 

 and his little force still unconquered. 



The lion hunt was at an end. 



At the camp on the Luli a telegram was 

 received from my chief, saying that there were now 

 at Pemba, under arrest, seventeen of the twenty- 

 three I.D. askaris who had deserted in such a 

 cowardly manner from Lewis and myself on the 

 Msala river in March. These men were waiting 

 to be court-martialled, and it was necessary that 

 I should come across at once with all other 

 witnesses for the trial. We reached Barama on 

 the " Pamforce" line in nine days, and there got 

 some equipment for my very ragged askaris and 

 porters. Also I got some badly needed shirts and 

 trousers for myself. 



Owing to the enemy having gone straight 

 towards German East, many K.A.R. battalions 

 were on the move for Pemba for transhipment to 

 Dar-es-Salaam. Two were in Barama the night 

 we reached there, and the noise of great ngomas 



