OUR SPLENDID AFRICANS.
native who chatsoed enemy , single-handed. Accounts of the splendid feats of the native soldiers of tropical Africa axe not usually published, but the Colonial Office has recently issued a few of them, describing deeds which have won the special African D.C.M. Private Tlelasi Semipa, (Uganda Police Service Battalion, won the medal for bravery in the defence of a small British post attacked bv five Europeans and seventy-five native soldiers with a machine gun. The attack was beaten off. and the enemy lost their machine-gun besides four Germans and fifty-five native soldiers killed. A hill fort was being stormed by a liody of the Nigeria Regiment, West African Frontier Force, and Lance-Cor-poral Moma Shira was the first to work his Iway into tho position and the- first to reach the summit. Private Amadu Kanna "charged single-handed and dispersed a party of the enemy."
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Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1917, Page 4
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145OUR SPLENDID AFRICANS. Taranaki Daily News, 6 July 1917, Page 4
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