REVOLT IN ANGOLA.
BAPTIST MIiSSi6NARY^ SOCIETY'S
ADVICES
1 MR. BOWSKILL'S ARREST
(Received March 5, 11 p.m.) ' London, March 5
The Baptist Missionary Society received advices from Matadi in the middle of February showing that after peace was declared, following Mr. Bowskill's efforts in mediation, Portuguese officials arrested a number of native Christians. The effect was ■electrical, and the war was renewed. San Salvador was burnt, and the Portuguese were driven within their fortress-, which was besieged. Tho insurrectionists shot everyone trying to reach the water, and the whole country was' excited.
Mr. Bowskill told Paulo, the Portuguese official in charge of the fortress^ that his action had .inflamed tho country. Paulo detained Bowskill.
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Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13410, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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113REVOLT IN ANGOLA. Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13410, 6 March 1914, Page 5
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