NIGERIA.
A COMMISSIONER MURDERED. SEVERE FIGHT WITH THE NATIVES. HEAVY BRITISH LOSSES. THE MURDEREKS PUNISBED. Received September 12, 9 a.m. LONDON, September 11. On the 13th Jane Mr Oswald Crewe Read, Assistant Commissioner, was murdered in the Asaba hinterland. Captain Rudkin, with two hundred of the Southern Nigerian Regiment, visited the scene of the murder, and had an engagement with the natives. Full details of the fighting have now been reoeived. After Captain Rudkin relieved Captain Waling, a successful attaok on tbe natives oommenoed, and was carried through in spite of heavy rains. The enemy made a strong resistance, but was orushed after severe fighting had taken plaoe. The British losses were twenty-five killed and one hundred and fifty wounded. The murderers of Mr Read were executed.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8235, 13 September 1906, Page 5
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