FIGHTING IN ASHANTEE
A TOWN CAFTURiED BY A BRITISH _ _ _. FORCE,
' Unite- Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. . (Received September 7th, 6.50 p.m.) LONDON, September 6. Lie_te__nt-Oolonel Brake, with a thousand men and two guns, attacking them in front and on the flanks, defeated 3500 Ashantis, at Ojesu, a stockaded fetish bush town near Kumasi, killing fifty and "wounding many. Ojesu was destroyed. Many Lee-Metfords and Martinis were found. Colonel Brake was slightly wounded. Twenty-nine of his men were wounded and two killed. ' The flying columns have had a good effect in indwang the tribe, to submit.
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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 10756, 8 September 1900, Page 8
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