FIGHT WITH CANNIBALS.
BRITISH COLUMN'S SIX DAYS' ENGAGEMENT. : Advices from Ontisha, Southern Nigeria, dated December 6, state, says Router's Agency,' that a small British forco has been engaged for soveral days with cannibal tribes in the'Awo country. A detachment .'of tho Southern Nigeria Regiment under tho command of Lieutenant D. Hay Thorburu (Scottish Rifles) was escorting Mr. Syor, tho British Commissioner at Ontisha, through the Awo coilntry, about forty miles south-east of Ontisha, when tho chief of the town of Awo began hostilities by a treacherous attack. Fighting went on from day to day, and when theso advices left had continued intermittently for six days. Reinforcements were being hurried up to the assistance of Lieutenant Thorburn's small column, for other, towns besides Awo were joining in tho fray. Tho Awos nio a very degraded tribo of cannibals. They aro armed with percussion cap guns and some are believed, to bo Sniders. '.Their mode of fighting is adapted to their country;'' Their roads are blocked, by, trees thrown across them and theso are used as barricades for the defenders.' Spikes of hard wood sharpened and poisoned nro concealed under, tho grass and leaves of the. paths. ;..
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1054, 17 February 1911, Page 3
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