Taveta police station where WWI in East Africa began

The old Taveta police station. [Peter Muiruri, Standard]

All hell broke loose when troops from German East Arica came within shooting range of the police station. A key motive of the Germans was to cut off British supplies by crippling the Uganda Railway 100 kilometres away.

Records indicate that there were few Europeans around Taveta, the most prominent being Sydney Hubert...