A FIGHT WITH BANDITS.
Secured Mai/ 27, 7 p.m. Paris, May 27. Particulars have been received of brisk fighting between the French and a company of bandits on the frontier of French Guiana and Brazil. It appears that Captain Lunier, I with a company of French marines, demanded under a Hag of truce the release of a Frenchman who had been taken prisoner by the bandits. Whilo the negotiations were in progress the bandit chief shot Captain Lunier (load, and his followers simultaneously fired on the marines. Sovere lightiug ensued, lasting for two hours, and ended in a complete defeat of the outlaws. The French had fivo marines killed and twenty wounded, while the bandits lost sixty of their number, besides having a largo number wounded.
Tho Frenchmen afterwards burnt their village,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5036, 28 May 1895, Page 2
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132A FIGHT WITH BANDITS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5036, 28 May 1895, Page 2
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