THE MATABELE WAR.
«. [Uy Electric Telegraph— Copyright.] Lonj)Oii, January Hi. Lutor intelligence in reference to Wilson's party states that they had reached the King's waggon whou the Matabele returned, assailing Major Forbes and surrounding Wilson's party. The latter fought tho enemy for hours, when their j cartridges wero exhausted and firing ceased. Tho M»tabele, when they mado tho final rush, found many of tho party dying and writing farowells to their friends. These drew their revolvers for a final effort, but were all hilled. The savages piled the bodies of the Knglish in ti heap. [Later. later details show that Captains Wilson and Barrow and tbe majority of tho dotuchment could have escaped, but they refused to desert those whoso hoises had bten killed. Lobongula wished to yield to tho British, but Indunas prevented him doing so, and it is said that he is now afraid to give himself up in tho fnco of the disa3te which bofol Captain Wilson's party.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11918, 18 January 1894, Page 2
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161THE MATABELE WAR. Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11918, 18 January 1894, Page 2
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