OTTAWA.
April 25. Intelligence is to hand from the scene of the rebellion at Saskatchewan district that the Canadian forces under General Middleton while advancing against the position held by tho insurgents under Louis Kiel, found a largo party of Batouch Indians -*> (allies of half-brcds) in ambush ma ravine. Severe fighting took place Avith the result, that several Indians were killed, and fully 50 were wounded. General Muldleton afterwards surrounded the ravine in hope of capturing the Batouches, but a force of rebels came to the relief ot the latter who were thus enabled to retire from their ambush.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4289, 27 April 1885, Page 3
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