FIGHT AT SAIGON.
NATIVES ATTACK FRENCH VILLAGE.
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Received 10.20 p.m., May 15. London, May 15. Advices have been received from Saigon that forty natives, armed with swords and knives, attacked a forest village, Bienhoa, Sharpshooters killed 16, wounded 10, and oaptured the remainder. The leader, a notorious agitator named Ongme, was wounded. He declares that Buddha entrusted him with the mission to heal the sick, expel the French, and govern in ooncert with Asiatic Sovereigns.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1455, 16 May 1905, Page 2
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