RECENT FIGHTING IN NIGERIA

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 502, 8 May 1909, Page 14

RECENT FIGHTING IN NIGERIA

Renter's correspondent in Berlin sends particulars of the engagement between tho united farces of tho Ariglo-tionuan Boundary Commission and 1000 nativea near Sonkwala, in Nigeria, last Dcoember. Tho British column, under . Captain C. Heathoote, encountered; great difficulty in its march, tho track being completely blocked with trees, while tbb natives had also dug pits sometimes /as much qa a hundred yards long an 3 pkaifclfuDy; bestrewn the route with_ dangerous spikes, which "pieroed the soldiers' feet. Eycntiiany tho coltrmn cometo. open grtmmd, by which timo two of the soldiers had been spiked through tho foot. When tlie iiativoa tl>emsdiy«B appeared in the open tho Maxim gun unfortunately jammed and waa out of action for some tame. At this timo the German column, raider Ljeut•enant von Stepfoam, who was subsequently ■wotmdod, was also in action. Although hit in two the German officer with great gallsmtiy iamself brought his column out of action, in which* ho was assisted by Captain Mooro, R.E., wto waa attached to tho force., /When news of tho co-oporation of tho Enfjlish and Gorman forces was roceived in Berlin tho circumstance was yory favourably commtsatßd-tin- 4®. Abo' ueNens&xs...