THE ITALIANS IN AFRICA.
HOW THIS TKOOPB FELL, Rome, December 12. Details of the action at Ambazali show that the troops maintained a heroic defence (ill numbers overwhelmed them There were only seven hundred rillcs and a battery of artillery, and they fought 22,000 Sheas for seven hours. The charges of Canister, fired at fifty yards, ploughed lanes of dead through the dense bodies of their assailants, and when it became apparent that all was over, the guns were thrown into a ravine to prevent them being captured. The total loss, including the camp follower massacred in (he route, was two thousand.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5206, 13 December 1895, Page 2
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102THE ITALIANS IN AFRICA. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 5206, 13 December 1895, Page 2
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