RELIGIOUS RISING IN BRAZIL THE LEADER TO BE
THE MESSIAH,
GOVERNMENT. TROOPS DE-
FEATED.
SIX HUNDRED KILLED.
WOUNDED MEN MASSACRED
AND MUTILATED.
London, April 1. Advices from Rio state that a Portuguese named Conselheiro, who claims to be the Messiah, is entrenched with eight thousand followers at Cauudas, a province in Bahia. The rebels defeated a Government force of fifteen hundred, killing a general, thirty officers and six hundred meo, besides capturing artillery. They massacred the wounded and mutilated their bodies. A force of seven thousand is starting from Bahia to suppress the rising.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 76, 2 April 1897, Page 3
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