TERRIBLE CARNAGE.
FIGHTING IN FRENCH GUINEA. News has from French Guinea that two officers and 12 pn vates were killed, and two officers and four privates wounded, in an engagement that took place at a place called Yn expedition of two companies of French soldiers met a number of natives under the Sultan of Goembru, the object of the white soldiery, being to •>r2‘‘GSi> "t'llG* SUiItTLII. . 1 -r-1 Yfter the first surprise the _ French soldiers brought their machine-guns hito action, and frightful execution folloilfre than 300 of the natives were left dead on the field.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3194, 13 April 1911, Page 5
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95TERRIBLE CARNAGE. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3194, 13 April 1911, Page 5
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