African Nationhood

Chapter 624 The Wave of East African Independence
Since Vorbeck entered British East Africa, the indigenous peoples in British East Africa and British Uganda have regarded him as a guest of honor.

This German military general, in order to create greater trouble for Great Britain, held back Great Britain.

Vorbeck first allowed a series of tribes such as the Kingdom of Buganda, Bunyoro, and Karamoja in British East Africa to establish independent states. In just one month, countries in British East Africa and Uganda were established.

Vorbeck allowed these countries to form alliances and trade with each other, taught them modern democratic knowledge, promoted modern democratic systems, and publicly issued a statement to sever ties with Britain.

At the same time, these indigenous countries also advocated the need to rescue more indigenous peoples, setting off a wave of national liberation.

Vorbeck thus served as commander of a military coalition of numerous indigenous nations, who killed British settlers in East Africa, imprisoned colonial officials, and claimed to march on Sudan and Egypt.

Call on the indigenous people in Egypt and Sudan to revolt together to overthrow the tyranny and colonial rule of the British.

This national liberation storm unfolded vigorously on the land of East Africa.

First of all, this wind blew to Italian Somalia. There were many Somali indigenous people in British East Africa. They hated the rule of Italians and British people and vowed to overthrow Italians and British people.

As a result, the entire Horn of Africa was in chaos.

After the British troops transferred from India landed at Tanga Port in South China in early March 1918, they intended to enter Mombasa by land to quell the rebellion.

Unexpectedly, they were discovered by the local indigenous people as soon as they entered the country, and when they tried to land on Mombasa Island, they were attacked by the indigenous people.

When the team of 10000 people was halfway across the border, they were severely attacked.

These Indian thugs were frightened by the guns and cannons of the indigenous people and ran around, often accidentally injuring their teammates.

The British officers who escorted them had to lament that these Indians were their disaster.

By March 3, most of the 25 Indian reinforcements from India died on the way to escape.

Another third became captives and were taken away by the natives to serve as serfs.

The Italians urgently mobilized troops to counter the rebellion in the Horn of Africa. The Hobio Sultanate in Italian Somalia also followed suit and issued a statement against the Italians in the face of the raging wave of national uprisings.

This made the Italians even more angry. The King of Italy summoned the British minister and asked how the British controlled East Africa and allowed these indigenous people to cause so much trouble.

The British were also extremely annoyed. After the "October Revolution" last year, the Bolsheviks formally established a government in Tsarist Russia and dominated the military and political power of Tsarist Russia.

And on March 3 this year, it signed an agreement with Germany, Austria and other countries to withdraw from the European war.

After this move, Germany and Austria completely withdrawn their hands from the Eastern Front. The soldiers and weapons on the Eastern Front returned directly from the Eastern Front to the Western Front. The Kaiser gathered nearly 190 divisions on the Eastern Front in an attempt to defeat the British and French forces in one fell swoop.

The battlefield on the Western Front was in full swing and it was a matter of life and death for the Allied Powers. At this critical moment, Britain simply could not send troops to East Africa to solve the problem of Vorbeck.

In desperation, Prime Minister Lloyd George had to contact Chairman Nanhua Stone and request Nanhua to send troops to help solve the problem of Vorbeck.

Chairman Shi naturally resisted in every possible way, and Prime Minister Lloyd George had to ask Chairman Shi what conditions he wanted before agreeing to send troops.

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Chairman Shi pondered for a long time before reluctantly telling the other party: South China wanted the Sultanate of Zanzibar next to Tanga in East Africa, and in addition, it would cede British East Africa or British Uganda to South China.

This condition can be said to be very harsh, and the British naturally refused to agree. They were only willing to hand over the Kingdom of Zanzibar to Nanhua.

Chairman Shi was not upset after being rejected. He directly warned the British Prime Minister: "Since you are willing to watch the liberation of East Africa, then go ahead. We don't care anyway."

Prime Minister Lloyd George knew that what Chairman Shi said was the truth, but he was a democratically elected prime minister and could not act arbitrarily.

...And things have indeed developed in the direction that Britain least wants to see.

In April 1918, southern Sudan launched an uprising. The indigenous people killed British officials, ravaged British immigrants, and took British plantations and manors as their own.

The wave of independence against British rule quickly spread throughout Sudan.

Vorbeck became a hero of the East African independence wave, and many indigenous leaders called Vorbeck "The Great Vorbeck."

They truly believed in this selfless German, praised his character and regarded him as a true friend.

It’s just that it’s unclear what this expert on guerrilla warfare is thinking in his heart.

Anyway, this great wave of independence mobilized British East Africa as well as the inland Sultanate and Egypt.

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It was not until indigenous activists agitating against the British appeared in Egypt that the British high commissioners in Egypt and Sudan panicked.

They called the mainland one after another and requested that troops be sent to suppress the resistance activities in the country.

Prime Minister Lloyd George had to contact Chairman Shi again and promised to cede the smaller British Buganda and Zanzibar Kingdom to South China, and asked South China to send troops to quell the rebellion in British East Africa.

After receiving the promise, Chairman Shi immediately dispatched personnel from Nanhua's London office to Downing Street to sign an agreement with the British Prime Minister.

After obtaining the agreement, Chairman Shi ordered the 16 South Chinese troops and 10 indigenous troops waiting in Tanga, East Africa, to march into British East Africa to quell the rebellion and wait for an opportunity to capture Vorbeck.

Before the army set off, the military headquarters promised the troops who entered the country for the purge that 70% of what was captured in this campaign would be handed over and 30% would be retained.

The soldiers cheered when they heard the news, and even the indigenous people called the master of Nanhua great.

As for the independent indigenous elements in East Africa, they directly killed them without mercy, leaving no one alive.

As the war supervisor for this battle, Shi Hao, together with Gendarmerie Commander Ding He, were stationed in Dar es Salaam to command the inbound combat troops.

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Commander Xue Youfu of the Navy entered the Kingdom of Zanzibar on the battleship "King of Shu". After taking over the control of the Sultanate of Zanzibar from the British representative, he directly transferred the Sultan of Zanzibar Khalifa bin Haroba. Ben Suyeni's family took the warship and returned to Mapu Port.

The Sultan's family will later settle down in the princely district of Hanking, near the Xinghan Palace.

Deputy Prime Minister Shi Jinyong of the Cabinet brought civil servants to Zanzi and Pemba Islands to begin reorganizing the government of the Sultanate of Zanzibar. He will establish an autonomous committee here.

In the future, three-quarters of the people in the Sudan will be relocated to the land, and the remaining people will be allowed to work as spice planters here.

The spice cultivation on this island will be under the control of a joint-stock company, with state-owned shares accounting for 51%, and the rest will be collectively owned by the people of several islands, with annual dividends distributed.

In this way, the people will be motivated and the country's profits will be guaranteed.

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Brigadier General Huang Jiacai led the Naval National Guard troops to attack Mombasa, Lamu and other ports to gain control of the ports.

The troops that entered British East Africa first captured Kampala (now the capital of Uganda), the heart of British Buganda.

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