Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Mauto ehondo yeAllied akatora nyika dzakawanda dzeGermany dzakanga dzakaparadzana, Samoa, Micronesia, Qingdao, German New Guinea, Togo, neCameroon zvakaparadzwa mugore rokutanga rehondo. Sezvo Austria-Hungary yakaramba kubvisa ngarava yayo kubva pachiteshi chengarava cheGermany cheQingdao, Japan yakazivisa hondo muna 1914 kwete kuGermany bedzi, asiwo kuAustria-Hungary. Ngarava yacho yakabatanidzwa mukudzivirira Qingdao
uko yakanyura muna November 1914. Pasinei nokurasikirwa nengarava yokupedzisira yeGermany muIndian Ocean,, pamhenderekedzo yeGerman East Africa muna July 1915, German East Africa yakatsungirira muhondo refu yepasi. Zvikamu zveBritish zvengarava zvakatumirwa kuburikidza neAfrica pasi paLieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Spicer-Simson vakanga vawana kutonga kwakarongeka kweLake Tanganyika mumakwikwi akawanda munaFebruary 1916, kunyange zvazvo kurwisana panyika muGerman East Africa kwakapfuurira kusvikira muna 1918.