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Show IRE BETRAYED 8! A GUIDE MEMBERS OF GERMAN EXPEDITION EXPEDI-TION MASSACRED. Led Into An Ambush and Although They Fought Courageously, Were Slain. Liverpool, Oct. 12. The steamer Niger, Ni-ger, which arrived today from southwest south-west Africa, brings news of the massacre mas-sacre of Lieutenant Guise, German ,eommissioner at Rio del Rey. near Old Calabar river, on the Bight of Biafra, and also of Herr Leemeyer. a German trader, together with 100 native soldiers and carriers, constituting an expedition expedi-tion formed by Lieutenant Guise to quell disturbances near the Cross river, which forms the ' boundary between British and German territory. a native cniei was iaK.en as a guiae, but led the expedition into ambush. He was promptly shot when the Germans Ger-mans received a volley. They fought vourageously. but were outnumbered and slain. The natives then looted the neighboring factories and murdered the native employees, after which they crossed into British territory. Tavo British traders, who were warned, had a narrow escape, managing manag-ing to get down the river in a canoe and. to reach Rio del Rey, where they found a solitary German official and a half-dozen black soldiers. Great excitement prevailed at Rio del Rey when the Niger left on Sept. 27, as it was thought the natives might come there. News has been sent to the Cameroons, from which point a German relief expedition could be despatched. 1 B ' |