Africa.
It has been decided to declare the Matoppo Hills district, where the Matabele natives are entrenched, a rebel area.
Forts are being built to prevent the natives sowing crops or feeding their herds, and so compel their submission.
It is proposed to recruit 600 of the mounted police in England and at the Cape.
Captain Hurrell reports that he has cleared the country between Gwelo and Fort Victoria of the rebels, 200 of whom have been killed.
Colonel Plummer has defeated four hundred of the Matabele natives in Chabez Valley, at Matoppo Hills. The enemy lost thirty killed. The Umtali settler?, in Rhodesia, are urging greater expedition in the extension of the railway from Fort Salisbury.
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Manawatu Herald, 6 August 1896, Page 2
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117Africa. Manawatu Herald, 6 August 1896, Page 2
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