Show rive FIVE HUNDRED WARRIORS SLAIN A anbult A by amx oil oct SO 0 nona ell if b baa rl 1 here of a fight between F i choh cn troops anil and natives in ili senegal aft I 1 foi foe after the ily by th the french of tho the principal fortified city of his ampire king Aliina doii resolved euliel to t fight the iho Furo europeans to the lut lit afis ihs soldiers have just hycl in ili the their e cipo fipo r q to capture the small for fortified 1 post t or block house of Konii kiry tile beavery bi which they showed when lid ing alien lc b siegel by the french under colonel archinard the ton was taken by storm but almost entirely burned by its ita black defender enders nho ho it fused lo perished during g the tight or in the fire which followed their al defeat I 1 ml this courage however was or of no avail arailia find and the french continue 1 to still further to the interior or of the tha country but their arch heing suspended during the ilia borst of the rainy season resolved to make a supreme BUli renK effort to capture the nl al vis visited iced po I 1 i T kary it land been I hv t colonel archinard last fane i 1 i 1 h I 1 11 I 1 left unior guard cuard of Lief terian valentino lentini supported fly by n i sub coI andt forty bearty Sene senegalese gales I 1 nine of u hout u vero ere sick a doctor tu two ty commissioned noncommissioned non off cers ceris broil four artillery men willi two small cannons three bund blind leil fell auxiliaries were also in the place but they could coul I hardly bo be relied upon tho rho tata ta tr ta or small blockhouse in the middle of tile billage had been however for tit do fon anc e provisions had been stored inside and aill a nuts hil had burned down in order to give give f ce play to the artillery kinz or rather emperor his calip on oil nt at kolonie kolome two miles froni from lie ire re there during the iho attack ccavin 1 lc I avin iho file command ortho of tile army to hart fl othar filar fil Kr ath the of kao kai a tile the advancing in il d den aci en columns makiv intine of thern car carrein carry rvin ins g ladders to lo bo used in the ilia alie attack the black soldiers though decini atol by tho the artillery rare fire rushed on the block at the 1 first irbit sound pon nd of the tabala or A 7 d lors to within lifty yards N ards of t lie despite ilia fire nrc from will of alini 1 I 1 abling I 1 their h ear b fit iho toot foot odthe wall but the moll birco 1 1 firo fire of the cannon and musketry caused to falter then scatter and guolo in the ilia bush the fight had begun at 6 a in ili at 9 a heavy rain fell and tile tho leurs took ad a butane of it to pick iii ail their dead and ilia wounded and I 1 hoagh they cari canie iril I away many of then could bo be ten KW after aard lying all around tile he blockhouse twenty throe being counted in ili a single help and it is estimated that the lo 10 4 of tho the assailants cached aut loo men at leant tho file ranch french rc had awl only I 1 to so lill lightly I 1 itly violin tto led clr 11 II it a in ili the iho hole army of Ah malou had dis feared |