CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.] DISASTER TO FRENCH ARMS IN AFRICA.
« A FORCE SURPRISED BY TUAREG ARABS, [PBESS ASSOCIATION.] (Received August 19, 10 a.m.) Paeis, 18th August. A disaster has been sustained by the French troops in Nigritia. A body of Tuareg Arabs, of the tribe which holds the country to the south of Timbuctoo and east of the Niger, surprised a detachment of French troops at Dire, on the Niger, scattering them and killing their commanding officer.
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Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 43, 19 August 1897, Page 5
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78CABLE NEWS. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—COPYRIGHT.] DISASTER TO FRENCH ARMS IN AFRICA. Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 43, 19 August 1897, Page 5
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