THE CAMEROONS.

Taranaki Daily News, 3 August 1915, Page 5

THE CAMEROONS.

j PLUCKY BRITISH STAND.Against as superior force. London, August 1. Reuter details a pluciky struggle in ,the north of the Comeroons. Three .Englishmen and thirtyi-six natives had a seven hours' fight with four hundred natives led by sixteen Gorman officers, .with four maxims. The British occupied a mud fort, and lost two Englishmen early in the action, The third, J. .Fitzpatrick, who was no soldier and did not know the native troops, carried on the fight. The Germane attacked on all bides,: and wero sometimes within four hundred yards. They concentrated their maxims on one wall, Our men had. only rifles, but fought with splendid confidence. If a bullet passed a loopholethey only wiped their eyes and changed the damaged rifle for another. Lato in the afternoon nearly eight hundred other Germans approached, but apparently were short of ammunition. They were unaWe to persuade the men to risk a bayonet charge, and retired after looting a village and murdering four villagers, The German casualties were three Europeans and thirty-three natives killed, four Europeans and twenty-eight natives wounded, The British lost four killed and eleven wounded,