Fatal Conflict With Outlaws.
(PKB PBESS ASSOCIATION) Paris, May 27 Particulars have been received of brisk fighting between the French and a company of bandits on the frontier of French Guinea and Brazil. It appears that Linner, captain of a company of French marines, demanded under the flag of truce the release of a Frenchman who had been taken prisoner by the bandits. While negotiations were in progress a bandit chief shot Linner dead and his followers simultaneously fired on the marines. Severe fighting ensued, lasting for two hours and ended in a complete defeat of the outlaws. The Frenchmen bad five marines killed and twenty wounded, while the bandits lost sixty of their number besides a large number wounded. The Frenchmen afterwards burnt their village. _^___________
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 277, 28 May 1895, Page 2
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126Fatal Conflict With Outlaws. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 277, 28 May 1895, Page 2
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