The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-03-30 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

NIGER DELTA EXPEDITION.  DESTRUCTION OF A NATIVE VILLAGE. A Liverpool correspondent writes: I have received by the Bathurst full particul ire of the int resting milit ry reconnaissanc. which is being un lertak ii by the Protectorate troops in the Niger delta. On Februs'y 4th, the Protectorate free left. E.wanga, rowi on the Opole River, for the interior The constitution of the forces wa: as follows: M,jor Carter in command ; Mnj ir Leonar Lieu r errants Mackenzie. Oahe, and Buekl rod ; Dr. Fletcher, one hundred and seventy Elaussa soldiers and two hundred and thirty carries. Lieutenant Burkland, R.N.. was in charge ii the guns, two six-pounders and two maxims. On February 70, tire Protectorate troops came into collision wilt the mit ives at. the village of Es=ennee. A Kkirmisli took lace resulting in the death f about twenty natives, and the I destruction if the vi loge, which was ser On fire. I One Matisse soldier was shot dead. On the Bth, j Lieutenant Mackenzie retu nisi to Egwanga suffering I from temporary blindness, which rendered trim I unfit to take any further part in the expedition.  . .. , • .1 My information stons there, but the same corres. A very ihteresting record of Old London has been 1 pondent who has so, plied me with •he above deals acquired by the Department of Manuscripts in the , sketches the obi. ts o, the rape !Bien in the folios/British Museum. It is a detailed plan of the road, i ing way : Toe force will march inland and m, ke a &c., from Hyde Park Corner to Counters Bridge (what j complete ch cult, coming out at Deforna, in the is now Addis, n-road Railway Bridge), in fifteen 1 Okrika i ountry. The main object is to induce the large sheets, made by one Joseph Salway iii 1811 for 1 natives to re-open certain tra e roads which they the Kensington Turnpike Trust. It is really one , have closed. When thia part of the wink is over, cohtinuous drao Mg of both 64108 of the road and of 1 which would be the case, it was expected, some' the houses tronting thereon, forming a conn lete and where about the end of the present month, the force detailed survey. The road was one of the chief will be reorganised, ano will proceed to the Benin highways out of London, well worn by stage coaches dircrict, where it will join hands wi,h a deta,o- the time the dray jug was made, arid many ment of the West Aide m Frontier Force operating interesting details are ' noted on the plan. At from Anba. The two columns will then th roughly ' Shane-street one sees the Westbourne brook crossihg scour the Benin liistri t, and ireak up any committer the road, while every ouse in the plan is Ideation of hose ile natives which may be found. either numbered or named. The property of William These measures may become necessary ow mg to the V ilberforce is shewn on the south side. The action of the Chi, f Lobelsheny, formerly principal Museum authorities have given the London Topa. 'ju'ju" man of the Rine oh Benin. It is under. graphical Society permission to reproduce this stoo i that Lob I bony wa, !he man directly respon. ren arkable record of London in the becoming of the sitilo for the murder' f Major C pl,nd Crawford and century, and it will form the principal item in the other Protectorate eine, .Is, wloch led to the Benin society's work for the year. Campaign in 1637. 'Vs i al.tu Mre or desuction is t ' I greatly desred by the luttioritie,„  sir Clam MacDonald left ?Orin on Thursday for kaki], where he will enthark for Wei-bai-wei. It is helived Wastington that l'iertnany wants the partition the Samoan islands between the three Powers—ti,rmany to lake ['polo, ArDeriC3 lutulia, and Great Britain Savaii. Trouble is revorteo from the Gold Coast hinterland, and det chments of the local and Accra Hauges have been ordered to C,omassie Irom Cape Coast Castle.