The West African Disaster.
(PEB PBESB ASSOCIATION.) London, February 28. News has been received that Colonel Corbett defeated a large body of natives, and after a two hours' fight drove them into the interior. Only three marines were wounded. Colonel Corbett's column had repeated encounters with the natives, who lost in | all about 150 men. The Queen is much grieved at the Bathurst disaster.
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Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 252, 1 March 1894, Page 2
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