YESTERDAY’S CABLE.
BKITISH AND FOREIGN. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyri gh t. Received August 23rd, 0.35 a.rxt. WELLMAN’S EXPEDITION. Christiania, August 22. Wellman’s expedition has discovered that two of Nansen’s crew had, wintered in latitude 81, and that one of the men had died two months before the discovery was made. TREACHERY- AND MURDER. Paris, August 22. Colonel Klobb and Lieutenant Meunier were catching up to Captains Voulet and Chanoine’s force to arrest them for brutality, when Captain Voulet ordered a fusillade to be opened on the pursuers by which both were killed. Captains Voulet and Chanoine had both taken refuge in the bush. A French mission under M. Toureau and Colonel Lamy have started in pursuit. The tragedy has caused pain in France. A hope is expressed that it is the outcome of madness due to the tropics.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2571, 23 August 1899, Page 1
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