SURPRISED BY NATIVES.
ATTACK ON FRENCH TROOPS.
$ DETACHMENT LOSES
HEAVILY.
[PEBSS, ASSOCIATION.] (Received June 25, 10.15 p.m.)
PARIS, June 25,
Two detachments of French troops, while'conducting reconnaissances near Elooina, French West Africa, were attacked by natives.'
One suffered &everp loss, including the captain and a sergeant killed; the other extricated itself by jneans of a vigorous charge. , ... , .
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Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 150, 26 June 1908, Page 5
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57SURPRISED BY NATIVES. Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 150, 26 June 1908, Page 5
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