THE MATABELE WAR.
FURTHER FIGHTING.
Capetown, November 9.
RaaPs column, operating from Tuli, was engaged on November 2. One man was killed and two wounded; but the natives loßt heavily and retreated upon Bulawayo. On Thursday, two impia swooped down on three hundred men under Major Adams, and Raar was attacked by se% renteen hundred while on the march. Selons, the wellknown hunter, was wounded by a bullet. Sixty Matabeles were killed. The correspondent of the "Pall Mall Gazette" wires that the Matabeles have captured mules along the Tuli-Vietoria Road, and that an assault on Tuli is'expec ted. It is reported that after Thursday's action Adams and Raaf were surrounded, and now require aid
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Auckland Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 267, 10 November 1893, Page 3
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