The French in M adagascar.
DISEASE DECIMATING THE FSENCH TROOPS. (Per Press Association). New York, August 26. Mr Woodford, an American traveller, •who has just returned from Antananarivo,, capital of Madagascar, declares that ihe French troops in that country are in a deplorable condition, and that they have no chance of reaching the capital this season. The Hovas, he says, are making preparations for a desperate defence, and if the French approach the capital are even prepared to abandon the city and convert it into a pestilential spot through slaughter aud decomposition of thousands of cattle. Paris, August 26. The French officers who have returned from the Madagascar campaign report that 5000 invalid soldiers are at the sanatorium or have been sent home, the transports taking dying men in order to relieve the hospitals. One regiment has been. almost entirely lost. The sickness is increasing.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 50, 27 August 1895, Page 3
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