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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almost like a boltfrom the blue, the Governor, Sir HenryBeifield, proclaimed martial law in BritishEast Africa and Zanzibar. The situation wasprecarious ; no preparations had been madeto guard against invasion from the Germanfrontier. The East Africa Protectorate Force,which was under the command of Lieut.-Col.L. E. S. Ward, D.S.O., consisted of the 3rdBattalion Kings African Rifles and part of the1st Battalion of the same regiment. It num-bered about 1,200. Many of the rank and file for service against the Germans. They werein Jubaland, maintaining order among unrulySomali on the borders of Italian Somaliland.*They had to be brought from distant stations,embarked at Kismayu, and thence taken byboat to Mombasa : and it was not until Sep-tember that they reached the front. Mean-time volunteers were called for from amongthe European population of British EastAfrica. The appeal was made to willing men.Within a fortnight over 1,000 settlers wereunder arms, and one troop had already taken
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