Walmington on Sea
29-08-2004, 10:19
Dapong, Walmingtonian Togoland
“Oh, thank you, Evans, it does look rather like the plan has backfired a little, doesn’t it?”
Admiral (Ret.) Jackson French replaced the earpiece and slammed down the tall phone in consternation. Behind him, the slight figure of John Williams cowered beside the window, nervously peering around the frame.
“Oh...crisps!” He cursed...sort of. “They’re starting to shoot this way, you know, I think they’re starting to shoot this way!”
French let out a vague grumble and remained standing in the middle of the room, hands now firmly on his hips. Gunfire could indeed be heard drawing ever closer as the native mob wandered about the city.
“Look, that’s my ruddy mob!” French asserted, raising one hand to tug nervously at his greying moustache. “They’ll calm down, if they know what’s good for them.”
“Sir?” Replied a worried Williams, apparently struggling to see what the old fellow was going to do about dozens of armed natives.
“Financially!
“You’ll all be fired!” The Admiral bellowed towards the closed windows, raising the hand still further, fingers curled and palm turned upwards as he shook with fear disguised as anger. As he repeated the last word, wobbling voice raised even higher, a window was pierced by a rifle bullet that carried on into the old man’s body, casting him down to the lion skin that lay already on his floor. Williams, still crouched by the next window, wailed in alarm and terror, his body tensed and eyes darting from Admiral to window to door.
In the end he did not need to break for the exit, as the police responded quickly, dispersing the mob and entering the room in which French lay half dead. The bullet that struck the influential retired Admiral’s shoulder was later concluded to be probably a 7.92x57mm Mauser M98 round...
Nb. due largely to the difficulty of obtaining clear maps of Togoland and the Gold Coast, Walmingtonian Togoland’s borders are basically the same as those of modern Togo. The British mandate that in reality voted for incorporation into Ghana is here assumed to have been part of the original British Gold Coast colony. Walmingtonian Togoland borders the British Gold Coast, and the Free French administered territories of Upper Volta and Dahomey.
“Oh, thank you, Evans, it does look rather like the plan has backfired a little, doesn’t it?”
Admiral (Ret.) Jackson French replaced the earpiece and slammed down the tall phone in consternation. Behind him, the slight figure of John Williams cowered beside the window, nervously peering around the frame.
“Oh...crisps!” He cursed...sort of. “They’re starting to shoot this way, you know, I think they’re starting to shoot this way!”
French let out a vague grumble and remained standing in the middle of the room, hands now firmly on his hips. Gunfire could indeed be heard drawing ever closer as the native mob wandered about the city.
“Look, that’s my ruddy mob!” French asserted, raising one hand to tug nervously at his greying moustache. “They’ll calm down, if they know what’s good for them.”
“Sir?” Replied a worried Williams, apparently struggling to see what the old fellow was going to do about dozens of armed natives.
“Financially!
“You’ll all be fired!” The Admiral bellowed towards the closed windows, raising the hand still further, fingers curled and palm turned upwards as he shook with fear disguised as anger. As he repeated the last word, wobbling voice raised even higher, a window was pierced by a rifle bullet that carried on into the old man’s body, casting him down to the lion skin that lay already on his floor. Williams, still crouched by the next window, wailed in alarm and terror, his body tensed and eyes darting from Admiral to window to door.
In the end he did not need to break for the exit, as the police responded quickly, dispersing the mob and entering the room in which French lay half dead. The bullet that struck the influential retired Admiral’s shoulder was later concluded to be probably a 7.92x57mm Mauser M98 round...
Nb. due largely to the difficulty of obtaining clear maps of Togoland and the Gold Coast, Walmingtonian Togoland’s borders are basically the same as those of modern Togo. The British mandate that in reality voted for incorporation into Ghana is here assumed to have been part of the original British Gold Coast colony. Walmingtonian Togoland borders the British Gold Coast, and the Free French administered territories of Upper Volta and Dahomey.