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n u m b e r 5 5 • 2 5Table 1. GEA Towns and Central Railway, Capture Date, Number of GEA 1 Rupie Watermarked Stamps, and Period of Use. 1Number of 1 RupieTown or Railway Date of Allied Capture Watermarked Stamps Period of UseDodoma 29 July 1916 11 14–30 June 1916Mpapua 12 August 1916 1 16 June 1916Kilossa 22 August 1916 3 4–25 July 1916Morogoro 26 August 1916 8 29 June–10 July 1916Daressalam 4 Sept. 1916 8 26 June–20 August 1916Tabora 19 Sept. 1916 2 30 August–1 Sept. 1916Mittellandbahn 19 Sept. 1916 9 19 June–27 July 1916Lindi 17 October 1916 2 26 June–7 July 1916captured Dodoma (the center of the Central Railway –Mittellandbahn) first, then advanced eastward to Dar- es-Salaam and finally westward to Tabora.World War I in KiongaKionga was a small triangle of land between GermanEast Africa and Mozambique (Portuguese East Africa)south of the Rovuma River and north of the MinenganiRiver (see Figure 3). Various diplomatic agreements betweenthe French, British, Germans, and Portuguese inJune and December 1886 disagreed on the possession ofthis area. The Germans acknowledged that the area hadbeen relinquished to “Portuguese influence” but claimedcontinued “special interest” in the area. The Portugueseoccupied the area in 1887. Five years later, the Germansseized the area back from Portugal.Figure 3. The Kionga Triangle. 2 Used by permission of the author, Alfred F. Kugel, and Robert E. Lamb.