East Africa had adopted a tougher diplomatic stance, naturally not because it intended to enter the fray, but to make Britain "willingly" cut off flesh to "compensate" East Africa for its losses.
This would of course offend Britain, but East Africa today was vastly different from what it had been during the South African War. Before the South African War, East Africa's overall national strength had been far inferior to Britain's.
But now, the gap between East Africa and Britain was nearly negligible. East Africa even held the advantage, and it had no fear whatsoever of the Entente Powers settling accounts with it after the war.
April 2, 1918.
London.
British Prime Minister David had been in an exceptionally good mood lately. Through Britain's all-out efforts to court and hoodwink it, the United States had finally joined the Entente Powers camp, greatly boosting the Entente Powers' confidence in victory.
At the same time, Britain's several newly opened fronts had brought one victory report after another. Apart from the Dardanelles Strait, where repeated assaults had failed to bring it down, the other battlefields had all achieved respectable results.
As usual, Prime Minister David sat on the sofa reading reports from the front. Yet compared with the furrowed brow and haggard face he had worn a few months earlier, he now appeared somewhat leisurely and at ease.
At that moment, Foreign Minister Belfort hurried over. With a grave expression, he said to the Prime Minister, "Prime Minister, we have recently received some information that I believe you should pay attention to."
Seeing Belfort's stern face, David's heart suddenly skipped a beat. After all, whenever his Foreign Minister reported news with that expression, it was clearly no good thing.
Previously, Belfort had been in high spirits just like him because the situation