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The Bristol Times and Mirror
Thursday, October 14, 1897
BRITISH TRADERS IN FRENCH COLONIES.
(REUTER'S SPECIAL SERIVE.)
Besides the officers already mentioned as sailing for West Africa by the Cabenda next Saturday, Captain F.A. Liston is going out by the same vessel to Sierra Leone to Join the West India Regiment. Paymaster A. F. H. Cos is also going in the Cobenda to Sierra Leone.
(Editor's Note: The above is spelled in the article as "Cabenda" and "Cobenda."
It is understood that the steamer is taking out between 50 and 100 tons of stores for the Niger Expedition. They are officially scheduled as provisions. This Niger expedition is one in which two shallow-draught gunboats, Jackdaw and Heron, are to take part.
By the Angola, sailing on the 22nd inst., Major H. L. Gallwey leaves here for the Niger Coast Protectorate. On his arrival in the Protectorate it is understood that Sir Ralph Moor, who has now about finished the Benin palaver, will be returning to England.
The British and African Company's Boma arrived here this morning from the West and South-West coasts of Africa, including the River Congo.
The Boma had among her passengers seven Belgians. Nearly all had been employed on the railway which is being made into the interior, and most of them were invalided home. They reported that the Congo Free State was recruiting men in Middle Congo to serve in the army up the Congo River, and there had been a good deal of fighting.
The Boma left H.M.S. Alecte at Cape Lopez on the 4th September. Cape Lopez is a Spanish port on the French Ivory Coast, which includes the ports of Grand Bassam, Assinie, Grand Lahon, and other places. A duty of 6s, was to be enforced by the French on all logs of mahogany exported. This was to come into operation on the 1st inst., and when the Boma passed on September 23rd traders were getting off all the logs they possibly could. The French also require traders cutting mahogany to pay a yearly license of 1,000 francs. It was said that all foreign mahogany traders and exporters intended leaving the colony, as the license and duty could not be paid and trade carried on at a profit. A number of British native subjects were in the French Ivory Coast, but these, it was understood, would return to the adjacent Gold Coast Colony when the new duties were enforced.
The Boma left Sierra Leone on the 29th September. Three days previously the same company's steamer Bonny left the colony with 180 of the West India troops and eight officers. They were going up to Lagos, and it was understood at Sierra Leone that on their arrival at Lagos the troops would be displaced into the interior as far as the Morin boundary, which is on the borders of the Royal Niger Company's territory, in the vicinity of which the French are said to be hovering about.
It was also reported from Sierra Leone that the chiefs in Sherbro district were still stopping a good deal of trade in consequence of the protective ordinance which the Sierra Leone authorities were enforcing.
A number of chiefs from Sherbro had arrived at Sierra Leone, and expressed their intention of waiting there until the Governor (Sir Frederick Cardew) arrived. His Excellency leaves Liverpool next Saturday week in the African Company's steamer Angola, and is due at Sierra Leone on the 5th November. The chiefs stated their intention of petitioning her Majesty if their interview with the Governor was unsatisfactory, as they aver that it is with the Queen that they made their treaties in the first instance. Some of the chiefs had been in Freetown for about two months, so that altogether their stay there, if they wait till Governor Cardew reaches the Colony, will have been at least four months.
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The Marion Daily Star, May 5, 1899
Marion, Ohio, USA
IVORY COAST
Is the Scene of a General
Revolt by Natives
Against
the French.
By Telegraph to the Star
Marseilles. May 15.—Mail advices have been received here to the effect that there has been a general revolt on the Ivory coast of Africa. The rebels bought magazine rifles in Liberia and attacked the French troops, twenty-five miles from Tabon. Serious flgliting followed, the French losing three officers and forty Senegalese killed and wounded. Several hundred of the rebels are reported to have been killed.
