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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1289, 12 November 1896, Page 11

Commandant Lothaire, whose summary execution of the British ex-missionary Stokes, who was foand guilty of having sold arms to Arab slave-dealers in the Congo Free States, has excited attention in Europe for many months, is a young man of thirty, born at Eochefort in the Ardennes, and owing his position in life entirely to his own exertions He is clean shaven, except for a moustache, and is quite calm and unemotional. That he is courageous may be known from the fact that during his last campaign in Africa he found himself disabled by a bullet wound in the thigh, whilst his assistant officers were either killed or placed hors de combat Lothaire ordered his bed to be placed on the field of battle, and from it he encouraged bis soldiers to a decisive victory. All the men in Dr W. G. Grace's family are cricketers, and they could make up two teams of good, all-round ability. It is the custom of the family to gather together at an annual picnic, when a game ol cricket is the great event of the day, '