GUN-RUNNING.
A BRUSH WITH AFGHANS. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, May 11
The cruiser Proserpine in the middle of April captured in the Persian Gulf an Afghan dhow containing 1650 rifles and a million cartridges. Most of the weapons were of French manufacture. Owing to Afghan threats to destroy the English reservation at .Task the Hyacinth landed marines, and trained guns on the town. While the Prosorpine was trying to intercept two suspicions coasters Afghans, who were concealed, opened lire, killing the coxswain and seriously wounding another. The marines still protect Jask.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIX, Issue 14682, 13 May 1908, Page 7
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93GUN-RUNNING. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIX, Issue 14682, 13 May 1908, Page 7
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