Word: nigeria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bristled to attention as the shooting of 18 women by British police and troops in Nigeria, West Africa, was announced by Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies Dr. T. Drummond Shiels. The women, said Dr. Shiels, were Negresses. They had attacked some British officers. Troops rushing to the rescue of their superiors received the order "Hold your fire, men!" and did so until the Negresses approached, slapped their faces, laid hands upon their rifles with intent to snatch them, whereupon British chivalry cracked and the shooting down of women began...
...Nigerian blacks have been in an ugly, riotous mood of late, due to the Government's unpopular attempts to collect a head tax on their woolly polls. At Itu, Nigeria, the local British river steamer was chased by tax-indignant blacks in war canoes. "With regard to the women," concluded Dr. Shiels, "His Majesty's Government is informed that they were encouraged in their provocation by a man who told them that British troops would never fire on persons of their...
...scouts?56 men in two classes, commercial attaches and trade commissioners. At Washington their reports are assembled and presented in a periodical pamphlet called What the World Wants. There it may be found this week that Rosario, Argentina, will buy buggy wheels; that Nottingham, England, wants battery chargers; Lagos, Nigeria, needs canned fish and lump sugar. Other world wants noted in the latest bulletins: kitchen sinks at Bordeaux; machines to make banana flour at Lourengo Marquez. Portuguese East Africa; fertilizer grinders at Batavia; sneakers and sporting wear at Mukden; fountain pens at Calcutta; corsets at Berlin; oilcloth at Cairo...
...Lagos. Nigeria, over a year ago, went Dr. Hideyo Noguchi and a party of scientists to study yellow fever there in behalf of the International Health Board...
Neither here nor abroad were there any pandemic outbreaks of disease last year, and in no country with a modern public health organization did pestilences spread. India continues to harbor bubonic plague, as do French Indo-China, China, Algeria, Madagascar, Nigeria, Siam, Argentina, Ecuador, South Africa, Greece, Russia. Two people in California, however, caught bubonic plague last year-from ground squirrels...