Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1918-03-02

swered by the Governor of Dahomey
ard On the sixth of August Major
Won Boring was Informed that tho
British Government could not enter
tain any such suggestion.
FRENCH FORCES AGGRESSIVE,
On the same day French forces
entered the German territory and
meeting with no opposition OCCUPIED
the port OF Little Popo, (Which tho
Germans called Anecho) and on the
eighth, occupied tho town OF Togo.
a few miles inland.
On the Gold Coast preparations for
hostillties had started at eleven p. M
on the twenty-ninth of July, when Mr.
w. Z. F. Robertson, Acting Governor
In the absence Of Sir Hugh Clifford.
received Il cable from the home au
thoritios warning him that prccou-
tons should be adopted in view of
the possible existence Of a STATE of
war.
Steps were at onco taken to con.
centrato tho military force of the
Colony within striking distance Of
Tpgoland and to secure the necessary
supplies for the transport of the
troops. At midnight on tho fourth
OF August. information was received
that war had broken out with Ger
many. The Chiefs were immediately
informed and at once spontaneously
came forward with expressions Of
loyalty and offers of assistance. Il
was indeed, MS the Governor said, "A
matter OF some difficulty to restrain
their ardor."
The Local Volunteer Forces Eek
hibited extraordinary enthusiasm, :"
the application for enlistment far
exceeding the requirements of tho
government and the supply of arms
and equipment.
UNDER FLAG OF TRUCE.
On the fifth and sixth telegroph;c
correspondence regarding the Ger
man proposal OF neutrality above re-
icrred to, took place. On the latter
Day Captain Barker of the Gold
Coast regiment was despatched I'M
acr nag or truce to Tome to inform
the Governor that strong columns
were about to enter the Colony from
East, West and North and to demand
the surrender of the German forces
as resistance was useless. a twenty
lour hour amistice was granted.
When Captain Barker returned to
rome at seven p. M. on the seventh.
he found that the Governor had with.
drawn to the interior with his troops,
leaving the District Commissioners
with instructions and powers TO sur
render Tome and the COLONY up to a
line drawn at one hundred and TWEEN
" kilometres (seventy-four and one.
half miles) from that town. The
Eerman Governors intention was to
retire up the railway to protect Ka.
nina, with its precious wireless
installation, which he had imperative
instructions from Berlin, four times
repeated, to defend.
BY the eighth OF August, arrange.
ments were completed between Mr.
Robertson and Mr.. M. CHI. Noufflard,
observation-disclosures Of Dahomey, for
cooperation OF the British and
french forces. The latter numbering
four hundred and fifty Tirailleurs
Senegalais, eight officers, twenty Eu-
ropean on-commissioned officers and
Two mountain guns, had On the same
day occupied positions in the neigh
borhood Of Little Popo and Mono
On the ninth of August, Mr.. Ro.
bertson and Mr.. William Pontz,
Governor-General Of French West
Africa, completed arrangements for
combined advance Of the British
troops Of Hout Senegal and Niger on
Northern Togoland and on tho elev-
enth the British Governor was in
formed by the Lieutenant Governor of
the Ivory Coast and Dahomoy that
five hundred tAuxiliary Cavalry" and
fifty or sixty "Gardes Cercles" had
been instructed to advance against
Sansanne Mango in Northern Togo
land.
THE EXPEDITION ACTIVE.
On the morning of the twelfth,