ZAMBESI SLATE TRADE.
• A BRITISH VICTORY. [Special to Pbess Association.] LONDON, Deb. 6. A force o£ Sikh troops defeated the Arab slave traders at -Blantyre and captured fourteen chiefs. Feb. 7. Particulars of the fight with the slave ti-aders show that Lieutenant Alston, who cominauded 150 regulars and . 5000 native allies, defeated 20,000 Arabs, destroyed their forts and fifty villages and captured 600Nyassa slavers. The effect of this victory is to break up the Zanjbesi slave trade, to close the routes by -which the Negroes were driven to the seaboard, and to open up the interior to legitimate trade. The British loss was only six, but that of the natives was large.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 5484, 8 February 1896, Page 6
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