THREE HUNDRED SLAIN
BATTLE IN THE SUDAN. By Teieeraph-Press Assiclatlrm-CoryrlctiU (Roe. February 19, 5.5 p.m.) Paris, February 18. M. Merlin, the Governor of French Equatorial Africa, reports that the Sultan of Dnkouti, who is hostilo to France, decided to migrate to tho Egyptian Sudan with tho whole population over which ho ruled. Captain Medat wns sent to stop tho oxodus, nml, after a vigorous engagement, decisively route<l the Sultan, who was strongly entrenched. Tho French forces.captured tho Sultan's three sons and many chiefs. Threo hundred. natives were killed and 400 wounded by French troops, who had 8 men slain and 18 wounded.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1056, 20 February 1911, Page 5
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102THREE HUNDRED SLAIN Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1056, 20 February 1911, Page 5
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