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i HBERIAX GUNBOAT'S ACTION. i Received 17, 4.30 p.m. London, January 10. Advices from French West Africa state that the Liberian Customs gnv boat Lark, commanded by a British Naval Reserve officer, fired' o;i a steamer belonging to the Gcruiun-Wavcrinnnn line oil (lloeester. The Link was recently instructed to stop breaches of the Customs regulations and to prevent the entrance of ships tti Libe-iinn ports which are not open to trade. The. World, a gunrdship stationed on the Cameroon Coast, has started for Liberia. 1 Liberia is a negro republic on the toast, of West Africa, lying betiveea the French colony of Ivory Coast on the east and Sierra Leone* on the West. lit* area is about :tj,ooo square miles and its population 1,500,000, about 20,000 of whom are civilised American'Liberinns.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 325, 18 January 1909, Page 2
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135GERMAN LINER FIRED UPON Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 325, 18 January 1909, Page 2
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