SLAVE TRADE IN SOUDAN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 207, 10 December 1910, Page 5

SLAVE TRADE IN SOUDAN

RAID ON A FRENCH FORCE. % Cable—Pres3 Association— Copyright. London, December S. The Paris correspondent of the Tim' -, states that Damar advices are to the j effect that the slave raiders who were expelled from the Egyptian Soudan continue their evil trade with Tripoli via Jioi'ku. Turkish patrols lnive been seen to the northward of the French posts at Bilma Oasis. -Moreover, quick-hring rifles, imported via Tripoli and libcsti, have been seized at \\adai. au ' indications that certain Turkish e.emcnts, inspired by influences mimical to France, are seeking to foment trouble in the Central Soudan. The Times tni-ts that the Porte will severely discountenance 1 lie movement. Paris. December 8. Details of the Wadai disaster show that Colonel Molls had a Inrce of .300 men. Colonel Mulls, four oilier oibcers, and forty men were killed; four oflicers and 0!) men wen wounded. The assailants. who numbered aboil!, .iOO, lett (i.)O d'iid The trouble is attributed to the iuaul'licieiicv of troops, it appears that there are oiuv 000 defenders for a terntorv equalling four-fifth of 1-wnce. and liiiDO for the entire area, including Citai.. which is four times the size of France. Tli" French rMwt further dillteulcies m the' same region until the Anglo-Egyt.)-tiiii) (lovernm'Mit re-olves to older at Darfur.