Civilising the Natives.
| Per Press Association.) London, February 24. News has been received from West Africa that a party of marines and sailors was landed from H.M.S. St. George, and after a sharp engagement defeated the natives pf Akassa on Brass River iv revenge for their outrages on the officials of the Nigey Company. The natives, although armed with machine guns, sustained heavy loss. Major Sir Claude Mac Donald, Her Majesty's commissioner on the Niger Coast, and the officer in command of the H.M.S. St. George's party, were wounded in the attack on the natives on Brass Riyer. " • ... : '.- '
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 203, 26 February 1895, Page 2
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98Civilising the Natives. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 203, 26 February 1895, Page 2
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