FIGHTING IN. EAST AFRICA.
QUELLING TROUBLESOME NA- . tives. •
TWO NOTORIOUS CHIEFS TAKEN
LONDON, Wednesday. News has .been received-that. Lieuten-ant-Colonel Evatt, an, officer in charge of Indian troops in Uganda, and also accompanied by Waganda auxiliaries, has met- the rebels under Kabarega, the slave-hunting King of Unyoro . (with whom Mwanga, the exiled King of Uganda, had taken refuge)] oh the east bank of. the Nile. Colonel Evatt’s force defeated the Unyorana, - killing- 300. and also capturing Eabaregaj and ,Mwanga. In the engagement. Colonel Evatt lest two , men killed, and twenty were wounded. ■ , ; .. .
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New Zealand Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 3737, 11 May 1899, Page 6
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