SOUDAN SLAVE TRADERS

Evening Star, Issue 14534, 9 December 1910, Page 6

SOUDAN SLAVE TRADERS

HINTS OF UNSEEN INFLUENCES. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, December 8. (Received December 9, at 9.30 nan.) The Paris correspondent of 'The Times' States that Damar advices are to the effect that the slave raideTs, who wore expelled from the Egyptian Soudan, continue their evil trade with Tripoli via Borku. Turkish patrols had been seen to the northward of the French posts at Bilma. Moreover, quick-firing rilles that had been imported via Tripoli and Tibcsti had been seized at Wadai. There are indications that certain Tnrki.-h elements, inspired by inlluences inimical to France, are fcoking to foment trouble in the Central Soudan, "fho Times' trusts that The Portu will severely discountenance this movement. DISASTER TO FRENCH TROOPS. OVER A HUNDRED CASUALTIES. THEUI ASSAILANTS LOSE 600. PARIS, December 8. (Received. December 9. at 9.30 a.m.) Details of the Wadai disaster fhow tliat Colonel Molls had a force of 3CO men. Moils, together with four'other ofliccrs and foity men, was killed, and four olHceis and sixtv-tiine men were wounded. Thi'-ir :.f----.-•:iiuiiit-sr who numbered about 5.000, left 600 dead on thf field. The troublo is attributed to (he insuMcienc.v of fioops. it .-ippeaiv thai, ihc.v are only 600 French military defenders for a territory equalling four-fifths of France, and only 6,000 for the- entire area, including Clia'd, which is I'onr times the size- of France. The French expect ftnlhei- dillir.ultir-s in the, films region until the Asigio-lv'Yplia.n riovoi-ivmcni resolve to establish order at JJiypiir.