FRENCH AFRICA
CABLE NEWS
United' Press Association—By "Electric Telegraph—Copyright.
A HOSTILE SULTAN
DECISIVELY ROUTED
(Received Last Night, 5.5 o'clock.)
PARIS, February 19,
The Governor of Fra.:eh Equatorial Africa reports that tlv? Sultan of Dakouti, who is hostile to France, decided to migrate to Egyptian Soudan with the whole population. Captain Medat was sent to stop the exodus, and a vigorous engagement ended in the Sultan, who was strongly entrenched, being decisively routed. Three.of the Sultan's sons were captured, together with many chiefs.'
Three hundred natives were killed and four hundred wounded by the French troops, of whom eight were slain and eighteen wounded.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10169, 20 February 1911, Page 5
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103FRENCH AFRICA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10169, 20 February 1911, Page 5
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