THE ABESHR MASSACRE.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12723, 19 February 1910, Page 4

THE ABESHR MASSACRE.

PAUCITY OF FRENCH TROOPS. [Press Association— Copyright.] Tangier, Feb 17. The population of the Abeshr district, Wadai (Central African Sahara) where the French force was ambushed and massacred, is 500,000. The French column was ambushed in a ravine. There is anxiety owing to France having only 600 troops scattered "in the Wadai district. ;