FIGHTING IN AFRICA.
ALARMING REVOLT. THE SULTAN OF BORNU DEPOSED. A GREAT BATTLE. THREE THOUSAND SLAIN. Press Association.—Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Cairo, May 28. News has been received of heavy fighting in the Bornu Country, in Central Africa. Rabbah, formerly a slave belonging toZobehr Pasha, having obtained large reinforcements, again rose against the Sultan of the country, and repeated his successes of last year. He seized the capital after a great battle, in which the Sultan lost three thousand men. He deposed the Sultan and collected' vast stores of gold and silver. Rabbah has now assumed the rulership of Bornu.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9832, 29 May 1895, Page 5
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