DARING RAID
SOMALILAND COAST ENEMY VILLAGE DESTROYED KENYA'S "DEFENCE FLEET" By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, Jan. 3t Nigerian troops, operating on the coastal sector of Italian Somaliland, destroyed the enemy village of Kiam-boni, near Cape Kiamboni, which has been a base for raids by native levies against fishing villages on the Kenya coast, says a Nairobi message. The Nigerians, however, encountered no enemy soldiers. They set fire to Kiamboni and withdrew. The only building left standing after the attack was the mosque. 1 lie landing on the coast by the Nigerian forces was one of the most daring raids in this theatre of war. The ships landing the troops were manned in many cases by men who, before the war, had never seen the sea. They were vessels of the Kenya Coast Defence Fleet, which is the official designation covering the Empire's most curious collection of schooners, dhows, whalers and motor-boats, manned by all sorts of Kenya settlers and African crews. 'I he fleet included a line of dhows towed by motor-boats through the reefstrewn waters.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23880, 3 February 1941, Page 7
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