ATTACKED BY BANDITS.
A FRENCH FORCE SURPRISED.
TWO HOURS' FIGHTING.
COMPLETE DEFEAT OF THE
OUTLAWS.
SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE.
Press Assoclation-lClectric TelegraplL-Copyrielit.
Paris, May 27. Particulars have been received of brisk fighting between the French and a company of bandits on tb.B frontier of French Guiana and Brazil.
It appears that Linner, the captain 0 a company of French mari D s, dea company of French man s, demanded, under a flag of truce, the release of a Frenchman, who had been taken prisoner by the bandits.
While negotiations were in progress the bandit chief shot Linner dead, and his followers simultaneously fired on the marines. Severe fighting ensued, lasting for two hours, and ended in the complete defeat of the outlaws.
The Frenchmen had five marines killed and twenty wounded ; while the bandits lost sixty of their number, besides having a large number of wounded.
The Frenchmen afterwards burnt the outlaws' village.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9831, 28 May 1895, Page 5
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