AN EXTRAORDINARY BATTLE.
PORTUGUESE MOW DOWN NATIVE • REBELS. Br Telceraph—Press Association—Copyrielit Lisbon, August 20. Further details have been received of the great battle which has been fought in the Portuguese colony of Timor in the East Indies, and in which 3000 native rebels were killed and 4000 captured. It is reported that the Governor of Timor, with a small force of infantry and bluejackets, stormed the rebels' stronghold at the point of tho bayonet, and captured.it after ten hours' fighting. The Portuguese losses were insignificant. /
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1530, 28 August 1912, Page 7
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85AN EXTRAORDINARY BATTLE. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1530, 28 August 1912, Page 7
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