FIGHTING IN UGANDA.
NATIVES DEFEATED BY BRITISH' TROOPS. TWO REBEL KINGS CAPTURED. By Telegraph.—Press Association.-Copyright, London, May 9. News has been received that Lieut. Colonel Evatt, in charge of the Indian troops in Uganda, and who was accompanied by the Nagarda auxiliaries, has met the rebels under Kabarega, the slave-hunting King of Unyoro, with whom Wanga, tho exiled King of Uganda, had taken refuge, on "the east bank of tin Nile. Colonel Evatt defeated them, killing 300, and capturing Kabarega and Wanga. Evatt lost two killed and £3 wounded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11060, 11 May 1899, Page 5
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