Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Sojojin ruwan Allied sun kama yawancin yankunan Jamus masu keɓewa, tare da Samoa, Micronesia, Qingdao, New Guinea na Jamus, Togo, da Kamaru sun faɗi a shekarar farko ta yaƙin. Kamar yadda Austria-Hungary ta ƙi janyewa daga jirgin ruwa na Qingdao na Jamus, Japan ta yi yaƙi a shekara ta 1914 ba kawai a Jamus ba, har ma a kan Austria-Hungary. Jirgin ruwan ya shiga cikin tsaron Qingdao
inda aka nutsar da shi a watan Nuwamba 1914. Duk da asarar jirgin ruwa na Jamus na karshe a cikin Tekun Indiya,, a gabar tekun Jamus ta Gabas ta Gabas a watan Yulin 1915, Jamus ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas ta Gabas. Rukunin sojojin ruwa na Burtaniya da aka tura ta Afirka a karkashin Laftanar-Kwamandan Geoffrey Spicer-Simson sun sami ikon sarrafa tafkin Tanganyika a cikin jerin abubuwan da suka faru a watan Fabrairun 1916, kodayake fada a kan ƙasa a Gabashin Afirka na Jamus ya ci gaba har zuwa 1918.