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Show BERLIN HEARS OF BRITISH DEFEAT Berlin, April 12. via London. 12:15 p m. Official news from German East Africa of the defeat of British forces on January 18 and ID in a i?n days' battle at a point near Jassinl has just, reached Berlin. The nri ish forces lost some two hundred men v killed Their total casualties arooun- v ted to about 700 These included the capture of four companies of nipn Three hundred and fifty rifles, on machinp gun and 60,000 rounds of ammunition fell into the hands of the Germans. The loss to the Germans was seven officers and eleven men killed and 38 men wounded. Mafia island, off the coast of Ger man East Africa, was occupied by the British January 10. |