The actions in the west of East Africa belong to a bottoming out rebound, but at this time, Count Roberts far away in Mozambique has yet to receive this news.
The command among the Allies was divided into three parts by East Africa, and when the Boer Republic was defeated, the war results could still be timely communicated to Mozambique via the Cape Town contact line.
As for Angola, it had no such opportunity. After all, without East Africa's consent, land telegraph lines could not be established at all. And the coast had to pass through the Skeleton Coast of Southwest Africa, and laying such a telegraph line was destined to be unprofitable, so no capital was willing to invest here.
The uniqueness of Mozambique was entirely due to the needs of the British army before the war. There was only a small New Hamburg Port City between the Natal Colony and Mozambique, a relatively short distance.
