The Archive · 1885

A Warlike Sign

An increase of 15,000 men to the British Army has been sanctioned.

INSULT T0 THE BRITISH FLAG, London, 11th March have lowered the British flag at Victoria in the Cameroons and hoisted that of Germany in its place, volcanic Camero a The Cameroons—land bet

are about opposite to Fernando Po, The country lies low and is inhabited by a people who retain much of their saya customs, and the climate is particularly deadly to Europeans, traders being obliged to live on board ships moored in the rivers, Aqua Town on the Cameroons river, s0- called from Camario, the Portuguese for shrimp, la one of the' seats of the African oil trade.—Ep,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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