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Show UFICME OF . Britain Expects to Link Her j Possessions in the North j and South. j i WASHINGTON". Sept. 1 A. Reports of fighting between the British and German forces in Central Afiiea today were regarded re-garded in dipiomatic quarters us having a significance far beyond tliat of a local struggle In that savage and remote quarter. quar-ter. It is looked upon as a final test of the two rival policies the German plan of establishing her most extensive colony in East Africa, and the British policy of linking together her vasL territory terri-tory in southern Africa, extending from Cape Colony through Rhodesia up to Inke Tanganyika and her equnlly largo possessions pos-sessions In northern Africa. extending from Egypt, through the Soudan, down to British East Africa. One of the reports from "Man qui re, in British Central Africa, tells of the taking of the German station at .Langenburg, at the head of Lake Nyasa in German East Africa. This Is the section immediately imme-diately at issue and which forms the link between the British possessions of north and south Africa. It lies just south of the British possessions pos-sessions In Uganda, and should its control con-trol pass 10 the British it would complete their continuous chain from the northernmost northern-most point of Africa to the southernmost point of Cape Colony. |