Fighting in Nigerla.

Taranaki Herald, Volume L, Issue 12195, 19 February 1903, Page 5

Fighting in Nigerla.

- HIGte«OO]^SSSONER C®&>'.''* United Pl-e&l 4^J i 3teßodiatioft,J-By I51&- < > i t&fe .#«te^aph.UGopyrighti V" ' * V : BHffeiVeftatfMft&teuftfl 10J 5 «-6' f^m- >-> ..- ./^.e tft ißoS^Vi,' Febrii^rf 'JSl ' In '&BW£bbs?*&i r i): ttie Kano catoipaignT^ta^Otffelow^ B^a^i^S^etary fbj ihe _(Jdl i otoJes/fcofflpH£taiM' i b 1 f ii Sir )i F. Luga^d "Higfi I *C6n>mis&iqin.er' ol No^liino^ijSfotminfHlfe G?6^eiftment earlier ' ; wjfea^*:'*tiie position wae to enable the Gpyernm^nt to judge- of the necessity ■oi^n^efcpeaition. L'oird Onslow, however, says he ia afraid tb^; the- action >which v Sw F^,,Eugard was taking in -the- circumstances waf inevitable. \" K % .f Jt -»-.' € .f= -i ..i . i * coiipmmjdjs m^m- A, ltctgard. Bep^ivpd i fc|ruary l i 9, 16 a.m.' ' * '" „,.',. , 'London, Februarjj I§.' Mr Austen. f /tshan^erla,in, sa^iajth^t the Government has absolute confidence in §ir, E. Lugar<J,,ano[ 'did., , not dreaniv oi .accueiag him^of unnecessary provocative action -iji.'Zano, - , if . : . . The -. attitude' v oirihe- Emir.' .of Kano, in, Northenfj; .INigcflria, b'epame so -increasingly hostile that inxinediarte operation^ ( against ' him • were recently . .decided! .updnTHby Sir Frederick Lugard. Alhiiost^^afy" week the ''Emir had been gendjß^ 1 Irnenacing ' letters to . Captain AWMj&fhike 'British Resident at Zaria, tK^M^ttest British : garrison to Kanb, and Ha'£^latedd^a >pri.ce'\upon' his head. The Emit' was"''6upposed to 'have between- /4000'; ? ; atidi 10,000 mounted tx'oopg,' and-the citjf of^Kano' itself .was strongly ' defended: , ;< About ' 1200'- British?' ¥ trb<ipjs; f bf'4ne West ' African /Frontier TFordeJ'ujdiaer the command of Colonel "ittorfandiyare emplpy'edf, ' the' opeicatibns^bjste^'bfl a larger and more ihaportant': etar acter 'than* any 1 previous underiakinjg Korthern' Nigeria. "., -