The French and English in West Africa.
(Per Press Association.) London, October 9. Major Lugard, of the Norfolk Regi* ment, who is serving in West Africa, under the Royal Niger Company, and three officers, has been sent from Lagos to Hinterland territory. Paris, October 9. Some alarm is felt here at tbe British concentration in the Niger. The news papers denounce what they term tbe strange aggressive attitude of Great Britain. The Budget Committee of the French Chamber rejected a proposal to increase the army by 12,000 men. Later. Captain Lugard secured a treaty with King Michi in Lagos, Hinterland, in 1884, but the French afterwards compelled the King to repudiate the agreement and to authorise a protectorate.
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Feilding Star, Volume XIX, Issue 88, 11 October 1897, Page 2
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