AMBUSHED.
... 4 OFFICER AND ELEVEN POLICE KILLED. PUNITIVE EXPEDITION SENT OUT. [press association.] (Received May 12, 11.40 p.m.) . LONDON, May 12. Lieutenant van Renen and eleven police were ambushed, and killed in Northern Nigeria while installing a chief. Major Williams and a large force have started out to avenge themassacre. The rising is of only a local character. *
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 115, 13 May 1909, Page 4
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58AMBUSHED. Marlborough Express, Volume XLIII, Issue 115, 13 May 1909, Page 4
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