THE FRENCH IN AFRICA.
A DETACHMENT OF TROOPS SCATTERED BY NATIVES. ( Per Pim Association.—L'<>/ujright.) Paris, August 18. A disaster has been sustained by French troops in Nigritia. A body of Turey Arabas, a tribe which holds the country south of Timbuctoo, east of the Niger, surprised a detachment of French at Dire on the Niger, scattering them and killing the commanding officer.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 403, 19 August 1897, Page 3
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62THE FRENCH IN AFRICA. Hastings Standard, Issue 403, 19 August 1897, Page 3
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