Ashanti.
Sir Frederick Hodgson, Governor of Coast Colony, who left Kumassi on the 23rd ult., with six hundred native iroops and fought his way through the investing natives, has since pushed on to Akwelbusa, in Gold Coast territory. Colonel- Willcock's relief column which has been advancing from Prahsu towards Kumassi, is now at Kwison.i some fifty miles south-east of the beleaguered town, where there are still one hundred native soldiersi under European officers.
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Manawatu Herald, 12 July 1900, Page 2
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73Ashanti. Manawatu Herald, 12 July 1900, Page 2
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