Fighting in South Africa
(per press association.) Capetown, March 6. . Details of the massacrein Madagascar show that eleven victims had their heads sawn off. The women who were killed were first subjected to great indignities im& their bodies afterwards thrown tc the dogs. Zanzibar, March 7. Major Wissman's troops had a severe conflict with the Arabs at Kishobo, They killed two hundred of them, and captured large quantities of ivory and cattle. Paris, March 9. Intelligence has been received that the French expedition up the Niger River carried a fortified position at Drena, near the source of the river. Six hundred natives were killed, while the loss on the French side was only eleven.
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Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 110, 10 March 1891, Page 2
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