Salaita | Moewe | 7 Feb 1916
#OTD in #WW1 Commerce raider Moewe turns for home; more patrolling at #Salaita; #FloraSandes shouts at people
Salaita Recon-by-fire efforts are continuing at Salaita Hill. There’s a final one planned for the 9th, after one on the 5th identified at least 300 enemy troops without artillery support occupying the top of the hill. This might have been an accurate number a week or so ago, but Colonel von Lettow-Vorbeck’s chief scout Piet Nieuwenhuizen (a Boer resident in German East Africa; you could probably…
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