CAMPAIGNING IN AFRICA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 190, 20 April 1915, Page 8

CAMPAIGNING IN AFRICA.

BRITISH SOLDIER'S FATAL FIGHT WITH A LION. The..“ Natal, Mercury” prints the following . letter, received by a Gteriniston ? ; from., a village about -.200 mil 's from Nairobi, British Ea§t Aixi.ca. .rT.he advance info Get-' h.- % s *3^ r ' v lf3 ? T.3aily' com hie nced, and die ,lin portent ehgag'ement took place nearly three weeds 'ago when we captured the rather important post of Lcngido. It was strongly entrencher, and we eventually drove the Germans ,off "at nightfall, when they managed to retreat with a loss of two killed and about eighteen wounded. ’ j “We have to tackle lions as well as : Germans. The ether night six of the beasts hovered round our camp, and chewed up 2 mules before we got golug at them. We killed two anl wounded a third, a mangy old pioneer, who : next day badly mauled one of our fellows who' went down to the stream to shoot wild fowl. The poor fellow was taken by surprise, the lion springing out of some tall grass. H : planted one shot, but unfortunately , net with fatal effect.“Th e animal sprang on him and tore him up terribly. He managed to rojgain lus rifle and although suffering bntonce pain, finished off the infuriated ; brute with a well-directed shot, in the head but he was badly hurt, was H and how he got back to Magadi at all I don’t know. He died three days later.”