3-085-853 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The French Aggressions in West Africa: scenes in the Royal Niger Company's Territory, 1898. 'View of Lokoja; a street in Lokoja; wharf at Lokoja; prominent natives in front of the house of the King of Lokoja; mission-houses at Ouitsha, the headquarters of the Church Missionary Society on the Niger; marketing at a mission-house on the Niger; medical work on the Niger under the Church Missionary Society; industrial work on the Niger under the Church Missionary Society...there is a despatch from Lieutenant-Colonel Pilcher, commanding at Lokoja, the chief inland port on the Niger, dated Feb. 20, Sunday last, stating that four French officers, with a hundred men, have arrived at Argungu, on the eastern or right bank of that river, which belongs to Sokoto. Since the arrival of this extremely grave intelligence, M. Hanotaux, French Minister for Foreign Affairs, has on behalf of his Government formally repudiated the action of the French aggressors, as far as Sokoto is concerned; but even granted that the advance was unauthorised, the French claims on Boussa and Nikki have yet to be dealt with, and the situation remains sufficiently serious'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.