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Show CAMPAIGN i AFRICA MAI BE INVESTIGATED t Complaint Made as to Cost to Great Britain in Men and Money. LONDON. March 15. (Correspondence (Correspond-ence of the Associated Press.) According Accord-ing lo information received here from Cape Town, a demand has sprung up there for a searching investigation into .tho manner hi which the British campaign was conducted in .East and Central Africa Af-rica after Gencrai Smuts had relinquished relin-quished command to come to Kngland. "When ho left it was believed that the campaign had teen virtually concluded. Owen Letcher, formerly an officer in the East African expeditionary force, reviews re-views the campaign in a series of articles in the Caue Times, and strongly advocates advo-cates a commission of inquiry. Belief prevails in Cape Town, it is said, that the sport of yachting at Dar-es-Salaam and elephant hunting in the interior were largely responsible for the prolongation of the fighting. The campaign is said to have exceeded exceed-ed the cost of the Boer war, amounting, to about $1.500, OU0.UOU. To tho casualties, casual-ties, which were heavy in killed and wounded, must be added many men who will suffer trom fever for the rest of their lives. The work: of the Portuguese colonial forces Is criticised, also the huge headquarters head-quarters staffs maintained by the British Brit-ish hundreds of miles from tlie scenes cf he actual fighting. Discussing tho Portuguese, Letcher writes: "In .common justice to our forces it must be set on record that not only did the Portuguese colonial army put up poor defense against the marauding maraud-ing German!). Lut that their presence was a very substantial advantage to Von Let-tow Let-tow (German commander). Inasmuch as they frequently embarrassed our movements move-ments and surrendered to the enemy guns, rifles, machine guns and supplies of which the Germans were badly In noed. "The engagement at Khamacurra, about thirty miles from Quelimane, which was fought in the beginning of July. 1D18. was a particularly disastrous event for us. since, after the Portuguese had lost two guns, with a lot of other equipment, and the native troops, despite the efforts of their officers, hud broken in disorder, the enemy attacked Major Gore Browne's King African Rifles detachment de-tachment and. largely through the employment em-ployment of the two captured guns, inflicted in-flicted a severe defeat to us." |