TURBULENT CHIEF KILLED
, -o An official 'Statement was Teenntlv issued in London (announcing the sue- ' _ ' cess of a- small Union expeditionary ' , force of mounted riflemen and Southwest African constabulary, under tho command of Colonel do Jagor, which. , ■ was recently dispatched to Ovamboland to arrest a powerful and turbulent native chief named Maudu,me. The chief, with a number of well-mounted " 'j armed followers, 'was-located op. the ~ -.- Portuguese border, where hitherto , he i had successfully resisted the Portu-.■■■■■■:-.'•'■; guese authorities flsd committed-var-' • ious qntraßes. '.'The-Union troops took' v ; up most skilful dispositions, and after ';. '. a very sharp engagement on 'February, . ■ ■ ;; 6in dense bush, the natives,'were:routr ' . ■■' ed, 30: to 40 being ikilled, 'includinp: ■ Maudnuio himself. Their "other dead :- and wounded could not bo discovered "V owinß to the-dense; nndergrowth. The ; Union troops had nine men' tilled' and ■ : eleven wounded. The; other principal native chiefs in Ovamboland arejloyal,- , , ; and no further troubhy is anticipated.- ■ •■: Ovamboland lies in the extreme ,: ■ north of what was formerly 'German . ' ■ South-west' Africa. It' lies'against the : border rif the ■ colony of "'• Angola-and sonie 300 miles from the nearest point, in'Bechuanalarid, on the ,: : old British frontier. ■ ' ' ' '■ :■ : '■■■.".-..•■'
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3063, 26 April 1917, Page 5
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185TURBULENT CHIEF KILLED Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3063, 26 April 1917, Page 5
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