Word: ndola
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, a tea party on the Provincial Commissioner's lawn was interrupted by a wild baboon. The guests fled and he finished their pastry, picked some flowers, disappeared. Same night the pleased baboon returned, rang the doorbell hopefully, was shot...
...happened, the annual Cape-to-Cairo airplane junket had reached Southern Rhodesia last week. Two platoons of British colonial troops were piled into four Royal Air Force planes, rushed to Roan's railhead, Ndola, followed by an entire regiment in a special train. Officials read the riot act at Luanshya. Tin helmets were issued, floodlights swept the compounds, the mine patrols went their rounds with fixed bayonets...