ELEPHANT POACHERS.
AMERICAN LEADER SHOT DEAD. «y Teleeraph-Prese Assoclation-CoDyrfcht (Rec. August 21, I.o' p.m.) London, August 21. A Sudan Government expedition, under the command of Captain Fox, endured great hardships for two months in a chase in the Lado Enclave after a hundred elephant poachers, under the leadership of Rogers, an American, who is charged with infringing tho sleeping-sickness proclamation. Captain Fox's party unwittingly entered the Belgian Congo, when the poacher 9 came up. Rogers fired on tho advance guard, wounding four men, and during' the fusilade Rogers himself was flhot in tho hip, and subsequently died. Captain Fox apologised to the Belgian Commandant, who arrested. Rogers' companions. .vi : . '.. ■ /;;" ; .' ; AMERICAN. PROTEST. . (Rec. August .22, .0.35 a.m.) , .... ■ , Washington, August 21; - The House of Representatives has adopted a resolution asking :tho State Department to secure information as to th~e killing of James Rogers by British soldiers in Africa. Mr. Norris declared that the affair was an outrage on. an American citizen by British officers, who had apparently acted under ironclad orders from the British Government.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1525, 22 August 1912, Page 5
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173ELEPHANT POACHERS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1525, 22 August 1912, Page 5
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