SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLES
PORTUGAL SAFEGUARDING ITS
INTEREST!
fPEB PRESB ASSOCIATION.] . : Capetown, June 29, — The Portuguese Governor is landing a force of. marines to protect the Beira railway. London. Jane 29.— News has been received that the telegraph line between Fort Salisbury and Umtali has been cut by the rebels. It is estimated that the olairns against the British South Africa Chartered- Co., by farmers and others, owing (o tljo Matabele rising, will amount to' £200,000. London, Juno 30— Mr Chamberlain states that the military authorities are adviged not to employ Indian soldiers against the Mashonas, as the natives would regard them as a confession of weakness of the whites. 'The .Government were, however, sending a battalion of the King's Eifles t» the Cape. ' " It i 3 reported that three Australians have been killed by Matabele at a place some 20 miles north of Port Salisbury. to various posts held by the Portugese in Zambesi, and it is reported that a brother of Jameson has been killed.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10654, 1 July 1896, Page 2
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166SOUTH AFRICAN TROUBLES Taranaki Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 10654, 1 July 1896, Page 2
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