TROUBLE IN ASHANTI.

Evening Star, Issue 11266, 13 June 1900, Page 6

TROUBLE IN ASHANTI.

THE BRITISH DRIVEN BACK. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON. June 12. Colonel Carter had a severe engagement with the Ashautis, who were entrenched at Porupoasse, thirty mites south of Kumasi. He had ninety-seven casualties, iiM-iitdingPoven European officers wounded. C-iniiel Carter returned to Kwissa, near the boundary, on June 8, awaiting tbo arrival of reinforcements. Her Majesty's ship Widgeon left Accra on April 13 to bring a small force of Hausas from Kita, and the Lagos Government transport reshipped the troops recently landed to increase the force proceeding to Kumasi. The Governor had wired that, other tribes were risin"-, and asked for assistance. The loval Bekwals had been attacked by the Ashantis, and 500 of them killed. It was feared then that this action would compel the Bekwais to join the rebellion. The situation was regarded as extremely serious. Router's Agency also reported that in addition to Sir Fredrick and Lady Hodgson the Rev. Thomas Morris, a Wesleyan Methodist, missionary, is in all probability shut up in fcho fort at Kumasi. The Missionary Society stated that, although they had always heard regularly from Kumasi, Mr Morris in his letters had not referred to any expected outbreak. For the last two or three mails no news had come through from Ashanti. Mr Morris has two assistants—one at Bekwai and one at Kumasi. There are no other missionaries in the dis-tin-bed region except those of the Basle Mission. The Wesleyans have no stations in the country north of Kumasi, nor any representatives between the Ashanti capital and the coast.