NORTHERN NIGERIA.
THE SOKOTG DISASTER.
DUE TO HORSES BOLTING.
Received February 26, 9.7 p.m. CAIRO, February 26,
The disaster, near Sokofci, is- attributed to horsea bolting, and causing a disintegration of the troops in the square.
(A cable message, receiver! on the 21at instant, stated that fanatics killed five British officers and a oorapany of mounted me a at Sokoto, hud that Brigadier Geueral Sir F. D. Lugard, High Commissioner, at Northern Nigeria was sending a punitive expedition. A later message stated that it was believed that a French force was, also, defeated).
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7974, 27 February 1906, Page 5
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93NORTHERN NIGERIA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXVIII, Issue 7974, 27 February 1906, Page 5
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