The result was that the Germans were led to believe that there were 1,500 men instead of "two men and a boy." They were persuaded that a half-company of the West African Frontier Force were the advance part of a great army, and decided that the best thing was to surrender, The young officer made it a condition that they should pile their arms on the side of the town by which he proposed to approach and that the Germans should retire into the centre of the town, During the night he had the whole of his force practising how to extract the bolts from rifles so as to render the weapons useless, Next morning he found the arms piled as he had commanded. He and his escort advanced further while the remainder of the force removed the bolts from the rifles, It is understood that the officer concerned is now Lieut.-Col, F. C.
Bryant,
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