OUR LITTLE WARS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 78, 6 April 1904, Page 3

OUR LITTLE WARS.

; 1 HOUBLES IN NORTHERN NIGERIA. '{Received April 6, 1.30 a.m.) LONDON, April 5. Heajvy fighting occurred in Russa, IB province in the British ProtectorAte ol[ Northafn Nigeria. The natives broke the square formed by an expedition sent out to punish the murderers ol" Captain Orie)ordan the Resident at Russa. The expeditionary force lost many tilled and wounded, but no Europeans were numbered in the casualty®. BOUT lERN NIGERIAN CHIEFS RENDERED SUBMISSIVE. LONDON, Feb. 16. The jxpedition against the Inkpavis, a group of tribes whose chief town ife about one hundred miles .north | from Old Calabar (Nigeria), Jfoa brought to a successful termination ai the end of December, says ttw Daily Mail's Nigerian correspondent. The object of the expedition was to compel the chiefs to carry out their promise of opening their roads to stair neighbours and to desist from tfannibaJistiQ practices, A column under the command of Itojor.Mackenzie, R.A., consisting of artillery 1 : and 300 infantry, wag sent ' early in December. «At the town of Inkpani desperate resistance was offered. It was found necessary to burn the place down, out even then a strong stand was made. On the morning of December 6, however,J the chiefs made submismission.

" Ustl casualt ies wero two toUed and twenty-eight wounded, and W Chicfs reported having full that the yg&s iuU of wounded,.