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All the public buildings in Paris are being closely. watched. • have been posted in various parts of the city threatening revenge' if Vaillant is severely dealt with. Yaillant's mistress has been arrested as an accessory to the crime. The Penate has approved the Bill passed by the Chamber modifying the laws respecting the newspaper press. Thirty foreigners, suspected of being Anarchists, are being expelled the country. A French chemist has made a peculiar offer to the authorities. He claims that by the discharge ot grenades charged with carbonate of arenic among the Anarchists while they are assembled at their meetings they could be suffocated. He offers the discovery to the police. A detachment of Major Forbes' fon-es, under Captain Wilson, overtook Lobengula's waggon on the banks of the Shangani River. The natives were in ambuscade, and hotly attacked Captain Wilson's men, compelling them to retire until a sudden rise in the Shangani pre vented the junction between the main body of Major Forbes' troops and the detachment commanded by Captain Wilson. The position of this detachment is reported to be perilous, and Major Forbes is attempting to cross the fiver to their assistance.
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Manawatu Herald, 16 December 1893, Page 2
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194Foreign. Manawatu Herald, 16 December 1893, Page 2
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