THE ATTACK ON BRITISH OFFICERS.
Received June 18, 8.30 a.m. LONDON, June 16. The Daily Telegraph's Cairo correspondent states that Captain 8011, of the Inniskiliings, who succumbed to injuries received through British offloers being surrounded near Tantab, and flred on whilst shooting pigeonß, on the marob of a body of troops from Cairo to Alexandria, shot a pigeon near a stack of dried forage, which blazed up. Thereupon a woman in charge of the farm, screamed, giving an alarm. The villagers tried to disarm the five British officers, who had entered the village. On the troops arriving they shot a native who was supplying Captain Bull with water.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8161, 19 June 1906, Page 5
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108THE ATTACK ON BRITISH OFFICERS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8161, 19 June 1906, Page 5
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