AMBUSHED IN WADAI.
" ■*"' 'VERf'^EW'TROOPS.
By TelesrraD'n—Press Association—Copyright.
' Paris, .February 17. Abcshr, in tho French'protectorate of Wadai, Central, Sudan, where a French detachment' of soldiprs was ambnshed by the troops of . the Sultan of Massalot and 110 officors and men killed, has a population. numbering. 600,000.'. ;
Later; details . show that the column was ambushed in a ravine. . There is anxiety .to France, having only 500 troops scattered about Widai/ which territory is estimated at 170,000 square miles. •
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 5
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76AMBUSHED IN WADAI. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 746, 19 February 1910, Page 5
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