FIGHTING IN NIGERIA.
A Gallant Stand Against
Heavy Odds,
[Received To-day, at 9.28 a.m.)
London, March 4,
Lieutenant Croly, of the Nigerian forces, with fourteen men, recently made a gallant fight for several hours defending a southern Nigerian village against a thousand Indebe Afikpoos.
The small band repeatedly checked the desperate rushes made by the Natives, and ultimately withdrew with the inhabitants of the village. Subsequently Lieutenant Groly, being reinforced, dispersed the Afikpoos at the point of the bayonet.
Major Henniker, with 250 men, traversed Indebe country, and subdued the Afikpoos after stiff fighting.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7402, 5 March 1903, Page 3
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