TROUBLE IN CENTRAL AFRICA.
DEPOPULATION THREATENED.
SULTAN'S FORCES THRASHED.
PARIS, Feb. 19.
The Governor of French Equatorial Africa reports that the Sultan of Dakouti, who is hostile to France, has decided to migrate to the Egyptian Soudan with the whole population.
Captain Medat was sent to stop the exodus, and in a vigorous engagement decisively routed the Sultan, who was strongly entrenched.
The French captured the Sultan's three sons. Many chiefs and three hundred natives were killed, and 40ft wounded. Of the French troops & were slain and 18 wounded.
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Northern Advocate, 20 February 1911, Page 5
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