The Europeans managed to drive off the attackers with the help of their foreign workers, and were relieved on 9 November by soldiers of the Force Publique led by De Cock and Hubin, who arrived from the east.
After joining the Force Publique, Makula served on the army newspaper, Sango ya biso, and in a military photographic laboratory.
Watsa was the location of the VI battalion of the Force Publique in the 1940s and 1950s.
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In 1944, a Force Publique garrison in the town of Luluabourg mutinied against their white officers.