A SERIOUS AFFRAY.
NATIVE RISING AT BIS3AO.
MANY KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Capetown, April 22.
A serious rising has taken place at Bissao, a Portuguese settlement on the west coast of Central Africa, and great stronghold of the Portuguese slave trade.- . .
Six thousand natives attacked' and defeated four hundred Portuguese native troops, killing four officers and seveuty-one men and' wounding tmsntytwo men.
Portugal is sending reinforcemesnts to quell the rising.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 93, 23 April 1891, Page 9
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69A SERIOUS AFFRAY. Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 93, 23 April 1891, Page 9
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