THE ASABA TROUBLE.
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS. [PKE93 ASSOCIATION/] (Received June 16, 9.4 a.m.) LONDON, 15th June. The "Silent Ones," who committed a similar outrage in 1904, are the authors of the trouble at Asaba, where Mr. Oswald Crewe Read, Assistant Commissioner, was murdered. tn the attack made by Captain Budkin, who hastened to the scene with two hundred of the South Nigerian Regiment, two British residents were killed, eight wounded severely, including Lieutenant Wamsley, and twenty slightly wounded.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 5
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77THE ASABA TROUBLE. Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 142, 16 June 1906, Page 5
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