A telegram from Sir F. Lugard was received on Friday
week announcing the complete success of the Kano Expedition under Colonel Morland. The object of the operations was to check slave-raiding, secure the safety of our garrison at Zaria, enable the Boundary Commissioners to carry out their work in safety, and exact reparation from the Emir of Kano, who had harboured the murderer of Captain Moloney. The resistance to the British force on the march was slight, but there was considerable fighting at Kano itself, a town with walls 15 ft. high, which were defended by the enemy until a party of British troops led by Lieutenant Dyer stormed one of the gates. The casualties on the British side were slight, but the enemy lost three hundred out of a total of five thousand eight hundred. It is further stated that the town was uninjured, that no one was hurt except the combatants, and that there was no looting. The Emir had previously fled to Sokoto, and the people of Kano and other towns have accepted the situation. The Parliamentary Paper published on Monday makes it clear that even if Sir F. Lugard anticipated the sanction of the Colonial Office, he has fully convinced the home authorities that his action was inevitable, and that he retains their complete confidence.
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